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Richard Casady

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:05:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

70 million for dock upgrades for the Eagle,

I would bet you could almost duplicate it for that kind of dough. It's
steel, not wood, nothing exotic and hard to work. Hitler lost his
school ship with a whole year worth of middies, and built three
replacements.
Horst Wessel, Leo Schlageter, and one more. Eagle is one of them, and
the others are still in use. Trivia note: Germany had a square rigged
raider, Seeadler, that took 18 prizes during WWI. That was cruising.
Seeadler Harbor in the Pacific named for her. Adler is German for
eagle, of course.

Casady