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| Akagi (Flagship of Japan’s Pearl Harbor strike force and a Midway warrior) |
   
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0 | 0% |
| Alexander (Largest ship of Australia’s First Fleet) |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Arizona (WWII Pearl Harbor ship then and now) |
  
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1 | 2.13% |
| Ark Royal (Key British carrier in sinking the Bismarck) |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Barb (Highly successful US WWII submarine) |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Beagle (Darwin – not Darwin award, but actually Darwin) |
  
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2 | 4.26% |
| Bismarck (Nice battleship until the British fleet showed up) |
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0 | 0% |
| Bonhomme Richard (John Paul Jones’ ship in the Revolution that has not yet begun to fight) |
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2 | 4.26% |
| Bounty (Bligh and the mutiny - visit lovely Pitcairn) |
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0 | 0% |
| Carpathia (Ocean liner that picked up Titanic survivors) |
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0 | 0% |
| Constitution (Fought the Barbary pirates and the British) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Dorsetshire (Got to sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea) |
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0 | 0% |
| Edmund Fitzgerald (Great Lakes Freighter, famed in song) |
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0 | 0% |
| Endeavour (Captain Cook’s Australia voyage) |
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0 | 0% |
| Enterprise (WWII carrier – most decorated American ship of WWII) |
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4 | 8.51% |
| Golden Hind (Drake’s circumnavigation ship) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Graf Spee (Scuttled German pocket battleship) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Half Moon (Henry Hudson’s most famous ship) |
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0 | 0% |
| Hood (Nice battleship until Bismarck showed up) |
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0 | 0% |
| Hunley (Early submarine used briefly in the Civil War) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Indianapolis (Jaws and the atomic bomb - you get a life vest) |
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0 | 0% |
| Jesus (First African slave transport on triangle route) |
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0 | 0% |
| Lusitania (Nice ocean liner until just before WWI) |
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0 | 0% |
| Maine (Battleship briefly involved in Spanish-American War) |
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0 | 0% |
| Mars (Swedish warship, first to sink another ship with gunfire) |
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0 | 0% |
| Mary Celeste (Mysteriously abandoned ship) |
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0 | 0% |
| Mayflower (Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock and cool hats with buckles) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Merrimack (Fought the Monitor) |
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0 | 0% |
| Missouri (Mighty Mo, and Japan surrender ship) |
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8 | 17.02% |
| Monitor (Fought the Merrimack) |
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0 | 0% |
| Musashii (Larry Ellison’s flagship yacht) |
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0 | 0% |
| Nautilus (First nuclear-powered submarine) |
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0 | 0% |
| Normandie (Iconic Pre-WWII passenger liner) |
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0 | 0% |
| Octopus (Paul Allen’s flagship yacht) |
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2 | 4.26% |
| Olympic (Titanic sister ship that lasted much longer) |
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0 | 0% |
| PT-109 (Hang out with JFK) |
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0 | 0% |
| Queen Anne’s Revenge (Blackbeard’s ship) |
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7 | 14.89% |
| Queen Mary I (early luxury cruise ship with famous passengers and WWII troop service) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Rising Sun (David Geffen’s flagship yacht) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Santa Maria (Columbus’ lead ship when he made the big find – can sub in the Nina or Pinta if you prefer) |
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0 | 0% |
| Susan Constant (largest Jamestown transport ship) |
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0 | 0% |
| Titanic (Nice ocean liner for a few days) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| U-47 (Highly successful WWII U-Boat) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Victoria (Magellan’s circumnavigation ship) |
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0 | 0% |
| Victory (Horatio Nelson’s aptly named Trafalgar ship) |
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1 | 2.13% |
| Yamato (Largest battleship – late WWII for Japan) |
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0 | 0% |
| Some other famous ship not listed here. |
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2 | 4.26% |
| Just send me to last week in a luxury suite on a high-end cruise ship. |
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5 | 10.64% |
| I think I'd rather just stay ashore. |
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4 | 8.51% |
| Voters: 47. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Hypothetical: which ship would you want to be a guest on?
Unfortunately, it has been discovered that the Social Security Trust Fund contained a typo, and it's completely out of money. Your retirement plan is gone.
The federal government feels bad about this, so they offer you a trip to the past on their top-secret time machine as a way of apologizing. The only way time travel works, though, is to blip into the past aboard a ship. It has to be a named ship (i.e., famous ship or documented ship), because the time travel technicians have to know the exact location of the ship at a point in history in order to transport you there. You'll get sent back with a top-secret earpiece that instantly translates any language. Any people will instantly believe your identity as a crew member, passenger, or whatever else you want. You may eat what they eat if you like, but a nice meal and unlimited beverage(s) per day will be blipped to you from the present time period any time at your request (for your use only). You will have no ability to change history, though you can walk anywhere on the ship, participate in conversations, and whatever else you like. You may pick the time period of your stay (start and finish), and also have a "return home" device that, when activated, will instantly remove you from the ship and bring you back to the present day and age. Which ship do you choose? A poll will arrive as soon as I lift anchor. Last edited by Rain Man; 09-29-2017 at 07:55 PM.. |
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If I were younger and in better shape, I'd pick either Leif Ericson's longship or one of Lewis and Clark's canoes, but from this list it has to be the Queen Anne's Revenge.
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