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David Manley
12-09-2012, 13:44
1798 - HMS Boadicia captured the French privateer Invincible Bonaparte 500 miles west of Ushant (if ever a name tempted fate the privateer's was it :) )
1809 - HMS Redpole captured the French privateer Rodeur off Beachy Head
1798 - HMS Boadicia captured the French privateer Invincible Bonaparte 500 miles west of Ushant (if ever a name tempted fate the privateer's was it :) )
This is why, some years later, Adolf Hitler forbade any ship to carry the name "Hitler", or "Deutschland"; thus forcing the renaming of one of the armored cruisers.
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