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More pages and pictures from Ships that Saved the Empire

07:19 am on Sep 25th 2007 Gavin Atkin

Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles, coal mines, tank steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs
Forging the anchor. Click on the pictures for larger, clearer images

Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles coal mines, tanks steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles coal mines, tanks steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles coal mines, tanks steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs

Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles, coal mines, tank steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles, coal mines, tank steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs Ships that Saved the Empire - complete with shipbuilding, sea battles, coal mines, tank steam engines, and paddle-steamer tugs

If you want to know what really happened in that era, I think this may help rather more:
The First World War, Second Edition: A Complete History More pages and pictures from Ships that Saved the Empire

This should tell an interesting story too:
Warships of the World to 1900 More pages and pictures from Ships that Saved the Empire

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One Response to “More pages and pictures from Ships that Saved the Empire”

  1. Chris Partridge Sep 25th 2007 at 08:38 am 1

    I love this bit:
    “It is easy to understand now how we manage to extract the carbon from the iron; we induce it to join with the oxygen of the air, and thus form an invisible gas. We really are not concerned with what happens to it so long as it disappears from the iron.”
    And that, children, is how global warming started…..

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