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[–] Bell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Building for another country during the civil war?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"The business of the American people is business." - President Calvin Coolidge

[–] mlfh 7 points 1 month ago

Such a flex, to export warships while blockading and burning the south to the ground. Get wrecked.

There was a strict limit of 1 ironclad per nation back then.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any record of what shenanigans this ship got into in Italy?!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Oh. It did not go well for them, I see.