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To: HAL9000
So, what's a "French warship" look like? Anyone got a picture? Yes, I know what I'm asking for.
2 posted on 04/05/2008 7:41:46 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: Timmy
"So, what's a "French warship" look like? Anyone got a picture? Yes, I know what I'm asking for."

It's the one with the propellers in the front...aids in rapid retreat.

11 posted on 04/05/2008 7:57:31 AM PDT by johnandrhonda (have you hugged your banjo today?)
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To: Timmy
Well, here's the "Le Vengeur" being sunk by the Royal Navy in 1794.

Here's the French battleship "Bouvet" being sunk by the Turkish guns in the Dardanelles, 1915.

Here's the Vichy France "Dunkerque" being sunk by the British at Oran harbor in 1940

17 posted on 04/05/2008 8:13:58 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (And infidel beheadings)
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To: Timmy
It's actually the Commandant Bouan, a small frigate intended for littoral combat. One of the lowest-tech French warship designs - most ships of its class have been sold to Turkey or decomissioned - but perfectly adequate for dealing with Somali pirates.


18 posted on 04/05/2008 8:14:55 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Timmy
So, what's a "French warship" look like? Anyone got a picture? Yes, I know what I'm asking for.

Ask and ye shall receive. lol

Reliable sources inform me that this Canadian Warship was purchased from the French Navy and the only modification they were required to make was to remove the permanently attached White Flag.

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23 posted on 04/05/2008 8:17:44 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: Timmy
A nice shiny pink warship from France!
74 posted on 04/05/2008 10:26:57 AM PDT by buffyt (Glowbull warming/Climate Change - the biggest hoax/fraud/deception of the 21st century.)
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To: Timmy
The difference?

Pirates hoist the Jolly Roger.

French ships hoist the White Flag (except when attacking Green peace...)

Cheers!

78 posted on 04/05/2008 2:16:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Timmy; All
"...what's a "French warship" look like?..."

Pictured here is the France's Poodle-class warship "Redditon" [French for 'Surrender'] with crew of 5 entering port to be painted white before deployment to Somalia to take on the pirates.


82 posted on 04/05/2008 2:40:40 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast (I'm Republican because I don't qualify for welfare)
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