Yeah, it is essentially the maritime equivalent of a flatbed truck, with two electronic billboards that use similar technology to contemporary sideline hoardings, but are more than twice as tall.
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We had a Royal Princess in port at the weekend. I'd put a picture up but the boat's too big to fit on the screen, and it's way too ugly to inflict on all your eyes.
It genuinely made me think of the Golgafrincham B Ark, or those JG Ballard stories where people go on holiday to a Spanish Costa and all the return flights get cancelled. You'd totally take those giant ugly floating apartment blocks and just anchor them out in the middle of the ocean as a way of getting rid of the most useless people society has to offer.
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The "Parade of Ships" that kicks off "Fleet Week" here every year is this morning. Not as international a lineup as we have had in past years.
•San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD 21), from Mayport, Florida
• Kingston-class coastal defense vessel HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701), from Canadian Forces Base Halifax
• Sail training vessel HMCS Oriole (KC 480), from Canadian Forces Base Halifax
• Four USNA YPs, from Annapolis, Maryland
• Sentinel-class cutter USCGC Lawrence O. Lawson (WPC 1120), from Cape May, New Jersey
• Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), from Norfolk, Virginia
• Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), from Mayport, Florida
• Keeper-class cutter USCGC Katherine Walker (WLM 552), from Bayonne, New Jersey • Medium endurance cutter USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909), from Kittery, Maine
• Cyclone-class patrol coastal ship USS Tornado (PC 14), from Mayport, Florida
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