Most of the English impressment was drafting able seamen from other vessels, usually merchants.
The intrinsic counter-loyalty fueled the Golden Age of Piracy.
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"Oh thank god, we're off this rustbucket."
Narrator: And then it got worse.
It's been unlikely to ever deploy again since the floating drydock it was in caught fire and almost sank the damn boat
That floating piece of shit should have been put out to pasture a long time ago
Lmao that looks like a screenshot from iron lung
I can almost breathe the asbestos in this picture...
How is this even a semi-working machine?
it's not. this thing requires two tugs being around just to move
It's very simple, Ivan. When there's a fault, we just seal off the whole area, and the problem is solved forever.
Not even a joke, apparently they have two whole decks where "nobody goes"..
You'd get lockjaw immediately apon touching that wall. Is that part of the ships defense? Immediate Tetanus?
I wonder, if it's put on sale, Ukraine or supporter should buy it.
Problem: it gives Russia money.
But buying it to turn it into smoke grenades (the best smoke grenades to ever exist) would be really funny XD
The really shitty part is that Ukraine (as the Ukrainian SSR) built the damn thing, and the Russian CO actually just weighed anchor and fucked off to a Russian port when the USSR collapsed despite orders from the Ukrainian government to not do that.
Rods from god that sumbich directly at the Kremlin
As The Prophecy foretold.