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HMS Victory look around as all the oldest warships across Europe have all gathered together. With how USS Philadelphia is able to summon shipgirls, which is just her grabbing their hands and pulling them out of the spirit realm or something like that. The countries of Europe went around trying to find one of their own sailwomen to do the same. But it seems that the only reason why Philadelphia is able to do it is that her original hull was salvaged and instead of being restored was kept as a wreak in a museum. There is only one ship in Europe that's like Philadelphia but the summons and even with shipgirls present got nothing from her. Which is why Victory gathered all the oldest warships together, getting all the old English Warships together whose original hulls are still around.
HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda_class_frigate, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction.
HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Her original hull is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armored frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armor-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875, and was "paid off" – decommissioned – in 1883. She subsequently served as a storeship and depot ship, and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy's torpedo training school. The ship was converted into an oil jetty in 1927 and remained in that role until 1979, at which point she was donated by the Navy to the Maritime Trust for restoration. The restoration process took eight years, during which many of her features and fittings were either restored or recreated. When this was finished she returned to Portsmouth as a museum ship. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987.
HMS Gannet was a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop launched on 31 August 1878. She became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then lent as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. She was preserved in 1987 and is now part of the UK's National Historic Fleet.
Then there are the other shipgirls of other countries whose hulls are still around and are in Europe.
Dom Fernando II e Glória is a wooden-hulled, 50 gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy. She was launched in 1843 and made her maiden voyage in 1845. Built at the shipyard of Daman in Portuguese India, it was Portugal's last sailing warship to be built and also the last ship that undertook the Carreira da Índia (India Run), a regular military line that connected Portugal to its colonies in India since the beginning of the 16th century. The ship remained in active service until 1878, when she made her last sea voyage, having traveled more than one hundred thousand miles, the equivalent of five circumnavigations of the world. After long service it was almost destroyed by a fire in 1963 with the burned wooden-hull remaining beached at the mud-flats of the river Tagus for the next 29 years. Finally in 1990 the Portuguese Navy decided to restore her to her appearance in the 1850s. During the World Exhibition of 1998 the ship remained in Lisbon as a museum ship on the dependency of the Navy Museum, being classified as an Auxiliary Navy Unit (UAM 203). Since 2008, the ship lies on the southern margin of the Tagus river in Cacilhas, Almada.
Jylland is one of the world's largest wooden warships, and is both a screw-propelled steam frigate and a sailship. She took part in the Battle of Heligoland on 9 May 1864, and is preserved as a museum ship in Denmark.
SMS Leitha or Lajta Monitor Museumship was the first river monitor in Europe and the oldest and also the only remaining, fully restored warship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
HSwMS Sölve is one of the seven Hildur-class monitors built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. It had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.
HNLMS Buffel is a 19th-century ironclad ram ship. She was one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry (Hendrik) "the Navigator", who had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874. In October 2013 the ship moved to Hellevoetsluis and is again open for public.
HNLMS Schorpioen is a Schorpioen-class monitor built in France for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s. These new ships were equipped with heavy rifled 23 cm guns, and a heavy armor. The hull had an armor plated belt of 15 cm (6 inches) and the gun turret, housing the two guns, had almost 30 cm (12 inches)of armor. She came from the building yard with two tripod masts and able to employ about 600 m2 of sails, but she proved to be a difficult sailing ship and some years later the yards, masts and the sails were removed. As with the Buffel her huge steam engines gave her a max. speed of 13 knots (24 km/h). Her striking weapon was the pointed ram bow, slightly different from the Buffel's, but she never ever used this overestimated weapon.
The Norwegian warship HNoMS Rap was a torpedo boat built in 1873. She was one of the first torpedo boats to carry the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo after being converted to use them in 1879, the same year the Royal Navy's HMS Lightning entered service. The name Rap (Rapp in the modern spelling) translates as "quick".
They're all have gathered the offerings and setup the summoning to awaken the oldest warship whose hull has been mostly salvaged. They're in the Vasa Museum, a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official web site, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. Together with other museums such as the Stockholm Maritime Museum, it belongs to the Swedish National Maritime Museums.
Vasa (or Wasa) is a retired Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship foundered after sailing about 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. It fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the 17th century until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping lane just outside the Stockholm harbor. Salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961, it was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet ('The Wasa Shipyard') until 1988 and then moved permanently to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. The ship is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over 35 million visitors since 1961. Since her recovery, Vasa has become a widely recognized symbol of the Swedish 'great power period' and is today a de facto standard in the media and among Swedes for evaluating the historical importance of shipwrecks.
The ship was built on the orders of the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania (1621–1629). It was constructed at the navy yard in Stockholm under a contract with private entrepreneurs in 1626–1627 and armed primarily with bronze cannon cast in Stockholm specifically for the ship. Richly decorated as a symbol of the king's ambitions for Sweden and himself, upon completion she was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world. However, Vasa was dangerously unstable and top-heavy with too much weight in the upper structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability she was ordered to sea and foundered only a few minutes after encountering a wind stronger than a breeze.
The order to sail was the result of a combination of factors. The king, who was leading the army in Poland at the time of her maiden voyage, was impatient to see her take up her station as flagship of the reserve squadron at Älvsnabben in the Stockholm Archipelago. At the same time the king's subordinates lacked the political courage to openly discuss the ship's problems or to have the maiden voyage postponed. An inquiry was organized by the Swedish Privy Council to find those responsible for the disaster, but in the end no-one was punished for the fiasco.
During the 1961 recovery, thousands of artifacts and the remains of at least 15 people were found in and around the Vasa's hull by marine archaeologists. Among the many items found were clothing, weapons, cannons, tools, coins, cutlery, food, drink and six of the ten sails. The artifacts and the ship herself have provided scholars with invaluable insights into details of naval warfare, shipbuilding techniques and everyday life in early 17th-century Sweden.
"You really think this will work?" Leitha ask Victory.
"Well nothing else had worked so far," Solve said. "I tried to get grandmother to wake up and nothing."
"It should work seeing how we have someone to help us in waking up an old wreck ship right this time," Victory said only to be wack in the back of her head by her grandmother Mary Rose.
The Mary Rose is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight.
"Grandmother," Victory said turning to the older sailwoman. Who is dress as an English Tudor navy captain. She's older looking being in her 60's or 70's.
"I maybe a wreck with only part of my hull surviving but there's no need to say it," Mary Rose said.
"Well it did take us alot of effort to just to wake you up grandmother," Gannet said.
"We thought you'll be like Philadelphia in being able to see the spirits of the girls that haven't been summon yet and just pull them over," Trincomalee said.
"Alot of resources are used just to wake one of us up. And we sailwomen just aren't as useful as we were before," Unicorn said.
"I would had been happy to pull my granddaughters out of the spirit world to protect our homeland. But it seems that my original hull has to be more intact for that to happen," Mary Rose said.
"Well at least we have time to prepare the girls who haven't been summon and their original hulls are still. They can be remodeled and upgraded like Missouri and Arizona will be once her rebuilding is done with," Gloria said.
"Too bad I can't have my own makeover," Schorpioen said.
"Not to mention show the younger girls how to really fight. Constitution kick that oversized Japanese ship butt," Jylland said.
"Constitution is right about us not being just ships anymore but also humans," Buffel said.
"True but she was only able to beat Musashi as she did because of all the reinforcements that was done to her by her robot crew," Warrior said.
"From what her sisters Chesapeake and President have learned. Their sister has been giving some of her robots to their kids to serve as crews along side with their fairies. Missouri thanks to her upgrade and that robots have been integrated into her, had robots being part of her crew when she was finally summon. And from what I heard the robots are better workers then the fairies," Victory said who got a loud and angry shouting from her fairy crew. "Now, now you fairies do a good job but there's only so much that you all can do. And the robots can't really think for themselves and the fairies are the ones who give them orders."
"Now everyone to your places and Solve when your grandmother shows up she might be confused and we don't need her firing her cannons at us," Buffel said getting all the sailwomen to their places for the summoning.
"If she's anything like me. She would have been wandering around as a ship spirit like me," Mary Rose said.
The summon unlike the Japanese way has them playing old music that was played for the Sweden navy. With the offering of several kegs of beer, rum, and other items that would had been around during Vasa's time. They're doing that as the offerings to summon a more modern warship needed much metal and barrels of oil to do. Which summoning a sailwoman was just a waste seeing that even scraping said ship would just end with a bunch of wood, nails, and rope. (1)
Then it happen Vasa appeared in a flash of light. Vasa human form is that of an elderly woman in her 70's who shows her aged of a long life. She wore the uniform of a Swedish navy captain that looks as old as she is. And like Philadelphia, Vasa is sitting in an old fashion wheelchair.
"You young girls woke me up from my rest. There better be a reason for it," Vasa said looking around the room and set her sights on Solve. "So granddaughter why don't you tell me."
"It's going to take awhile," Solve said as she began to tell Vasa why she was woken up.
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Around Europe the older ships that haven't been summon have been dry docked in preparation of their remodeling once Constitution comes. It will be a couple of months as Constitution made it known that she'll be traveling all along the coast of both North and South America to upgrade all the ships that she could. And the countries are doing what they can to prepare for her arrival. Seeing that garbage was used to upgrade USS Missouri using the advance recycling of the Fallout world, the different countries have also been stockpiling their trash as well. All to have the raw resources to upgrade their old ships that haven't been summon and hulls are still around.
Like, HMS Caroline who is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw combat service in the First World War and served as an administrative center in the Second World War. Caroline was launched and commissioned in 1914. At the time of her decommissioning in 2011 she was the second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after HMS Victory. She served as a static headquarters and training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, based in Alexandra Dock, Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the later stages of her career. She was converted into a museum ship. From October 2016 she underwent inspection and repairs to her hull at Harland and Wolff and opened to the public on 1st July 2017 at Alexandra Dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. Caroline is the last remaining British First World War light cruiser in service, and she is the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland still afloat. She is also one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War, along with the 1915 Monitor HMS M33 (in Portsmouth dockyard), and the Flower-class sloop HMS President (1918), (formerly HMS Saxifrage) usually moored on the Thames at Blackfriars but as from February 2016, in Number 3 Basin, Chatham.
HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fueling hulk, boom defense workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A program of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS M.33 is located within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving ship from the Gallipoli Campaign.
Georgios Averof is a modified Pisa-class armored cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century. Although popularly known as a battleship in Greek, she is in fact an armored cruiser, the only ship of this type still in existence.
Aurora is a 1900 Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in Saint Petersburg for service in the Pacific. All three ships of this class served during the Russo-Japanese War. Aurora survived the Battle of Tsushima and was interned under US protection in the Philippines, and eventually returned to the Baltic Fleet. The second ship, Pallada, was sunk by the Japanese at Port Arthur in 1904. The third ship, Diana, was interned in Saigon after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. One of the first incidents of the October Revolution in Russia took place on the cruiser Aurora, which reportedly have fired the first shot, signalling the beginning of the rebellion for those involved.
Kommuna who is a submarine salvage ship in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. A double-hulled catamaran, she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now the Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov. The ship was launched the following year, and commissioned on 14 July 1915. She was renamed Kommuna on 31 December 1922. Having served in the Russian Imperial, Soviet, and Russian Federation navies through the Russian Revolution and two World Wars, she is the oldest ship still in service with any navy (excluding such honorary commissioned ships as USS Constitution and HMS Victory).
The Russian shipgirls are making sure their their two elder ships are well protected by putting them inland and away from water. They seen what Constitution is able to do and seeing that Kommuna is the oldest warship still in service and not in an honorary position like Constitution and Victory. The navy personal and shipgirls are very protective of her, till she's been upgraded and rearmed with Fallout weapons. She'll be able to show those two sailwomen what she's made of.
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Hawaii -
Inside her privet office Constitution was making preparations for what's to come after Arizona is rebuilt. Which should be under a month thanks to the robots working around the clock, with human workers helping them here and there. She's been talking with other countries leaders about upgrading the old ship that haven't been summon as shipgirls yet. The countries in the East are also asking for help but she'll let Arizona and Missouri handle that, it wouldn't be good for her to be anywhere close to Japan or China. Missouri's original hull is still a ship and manned by robots and humans, with a working factory level on a smaller scale then USS United State but be able to handle upgrading the old ships to the West.
While her two granddaughters are helping the countries around Asia, she'll be helping with the ones to the East. Besides she still needs to upgrade the American ships that having been summon and to see what happens if she does upgrade a shipgirl's original hull who is summon. Constitution is already making blueprints of what two of her granddaughter's upgrades be once she reaches them.
USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after returning to the U.S. in 1899, but was returned to active service in 1902. She served until World War I as a training ship for naval cadets and as a floating barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1917, she was mobilized again for war service, patrolling the American coast and escorting transport ships.
After World War I, Olympia participated in the 1919 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and conducted cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas to promote peace in the unstable Balkan countries. In 1921, the ship carried the remains of World War I's Unknown Soldier from France to Washington, D.C., where his body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Olympia was decommissioned for the last time in December 1922 and placed in reserve.
USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II, and is now a museum ship near Houston, Texas. In addition to her combat service, Texas also served as a technological testbed during her career, and in this capacity became the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US ship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers (analog forerunners of today's computers), the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, from a platform on Turret 2, and was one of the first to receive the CXAM-1 version of CXAM production radar in the US Navy.
Among the world's remaining battleships, Texas is notable for being the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship, and the first battleship declared to be a US National Historic Landmark. And is the only remaining World War I–era dreadnought battleship, though she is not the oldest surviving steel battleship: Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought battleship ordered in 1898 by the Imperial Japanese Navy is older than Texas. She is also noteworthy for being one of only seven remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars.
Both of them service to their country made her proud of them. And there's another more personal reason for her to head East. She needs to wake up her other sisters and the Constitution of this world. Which will be a very tense and strange family reunion.
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Japan -
Yamato stood in front of the oldest warship of Japan, around her people are either planning for the summoning ritual or working on said ship. The fight between Constitution and Musashi is still being played on tv, the first fight was the old American shipwoman using her advance weapons. The second on the other hand just showed how much better she is to Musashi, in unarmed combat. Constitution didn't just beat Musashi, she humiliated her in front of cameras that filmed everything. Calling Musashi a floating hotel for officers, and later saying the same thing about her. Yamato wanted to go to Hawaii and fight Constitution herself, but the admiral stop her. If she went and gets beaten... the morel of the Japan shipgirls are already low. Which is why they came up with a plan to fight fire with fire, by summoning the oldest intact Japanese warship there is.
Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defense ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War.
After 1922, Mikasa was decommissioned in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka. She was badly neglected during the post-World War II Occupation of Japan and required extensive refurbishing in the late 1950s. She is now fully restored as a museum ship and can be visited at Mikasa Park in Yokosuka. Mikasa is the last remaining example of a pre-dreadnought battleship anywhere in the world.
"You really think that she'll be able to beat Constitution?" Hiryuu asked.
"She's the only warship we have who has the battle experience to fight her on her level," Yamato said.
"Seeing how she totally owned us each time we tried fighting her," Yuubari said.
"You should see the comments that were left on the comment section on youtube," Kinugasa said.
"But will mom be able to beat Constitution?" Hiburi asked. Like the other younger shipgirls they all see Mikasa as their mom.
"Constitution is nuclear powered," Daitou adds.
"Why you think I"m giving mom a makeover?" Akashi a repair ship said. She and a team of mechanics have been working on Mikasa. Seeing how Missouri is now huge after her remodel. She's now over 8 feet tall, thickly built giantess who is very confident in her appearance. Who does cover herself up, which doesn't hide how well built she is. She is also much stronger and powerful then any other shipgirl.
"So that mom be big and sexy?" Shiratsuyu asked. She like the other younger girls are disappointed that the only way they would end up like Missouri would be if their original hulls are still around.
"Well she is our mom and it's a nice thing to do. But she'll be much stronger and powerful. And once the girls comeback from Hawaii with the equipments from the Fallout world, I'll be able to give mom the firepower she'll need," Akashi said.
"And she'll be able to beat Constitution and restore our pride," Yamato said.
"The girls at Hawaii haven't been making any headway in that department," Shiratsuyu said. They had tried to pick a fight with Constitution but she just ignored them and had her robots blast at them to run them off.
"They're leaving soon once Musashi repairs are done. Which Constitution is billing us for," Yamato said.
"She did?" Akashi asked.
"Yes and Kamoi told me all about it," Yamato said.
"So is she a American?" Hiburi asked. Which many Japan shipgirls have been wondering as the older American shipwomen have been just treating her as their daughter or granddaughter.
"By birth yes but she is one of us," Yamato said.
"Can't she talk to Constitution?" Hiburi asked.
"She tried and that just earned her ears being pulled and sent to her room," Yamato said.
"What?" the shipgirls around her asked.
"Does that mean grandma Mikasa be like that to us?" Hiburi asked.
"Most likely," Yamato said as she is too dreading what life be like with mom around.
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Author's Notes -
1 - I'm just making the summons of shipgirls being different for the country of said shipgirl. As how it's done for Japanese shipgirls wouldn't work for others.
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