Captured Ships
The military campaigns in Europe yielded a number of captured vessels, many of which were under construction. Nations represented included Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Soviet Union and Italy (after the armistice). Few of the incomplete ships were actually commissioned. Some captured not completed ships were used as block ships later in the war others were broken up.
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“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
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“The northern sky rose high and black
Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
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