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Bart Senior wrote:
A short walk from my boat is the schooner Dolphin, one of nine
schooners build by the Nazis to transport missiles to Peenemude.

It has the biggest prop I've seen on a sailing yacht. Lots of pictures
of the refit.

http://www.schoonerdolphin.com/

http://www.space.edu/projects/book/chapter8.html


Very cool links, thanks Bart! The North Sea trawlers were tough boats
indeed. It's odd to think of the connection to the V-2 and Werner Von
Braun, this boat was a distant contributor to the Apollo moon shots.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

 
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