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minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoIf you want more fun, in us navy parlance, boats are only submarines. Everything else is a ship. The easy way to remember it is that if it sinks on purpose, its a boat. Submariners will tell you this is wrong, and that are only boats, and targets.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoSo does that mean a ship that is purposely scuttled is now a boat? 🤔
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agoIf you scuttle it, it’s just a wreck. The boats have to come back up.
If you want more fun, in us navy parlance, boats are only submarines. Everything else is a ship. The easy way to remember it is that if it sinks on purpose, its a boat.
Submariners will tell you this is wrong, and that are only boats, and targets.
So does that mean a ship that is purposely scuttled is now a boat? 🤔
If you scuttle it, it’s just a wreck. The boats have to come back up.