Thai filler chapter is going over all the ships mentioned in the last chapter in more detail.

(found out don't allow images so your going to have to look them up yourselves)

(also we of the ships fates in story are left out to avoid spoilers)

first off the SS Untied States

ordered in 1949 and completed 2 years later the ship took the blue riband (fastest Atlantic crossing) from RMS Queen Mary and still holds it to this day also she's the fastest ship over 10000 tons she cost around $644 million in today's money and was in service until 1969 and since then has been laid up (docked and not moved) in Philadelphia changing hands alot in real life she is right now slowly under going repair work to become a museum ship.

in this story her fate is being bought by miles in 1989 and mid repairs is converted on the inside to be the headquarters for the vigilante group due to her top speed of 38 knots and her size and is renamed SS Blie Ribbon.

shortly after the events of the story she would be put back into passenger service as an ocean liner looking cruise ship until being turned into a museum in and around 2045.

next up is the Untied States 'older sister' SS America

SS America had a more interesting service life being completed in 1940 she only had a year of passenger service before the US enter led ww2 where she was used as a troopship after the war she went back into passenger service and left service in 1979 (under different owners though amd different name) amd was abandoned till 1993 when she was bought to be turned into a hotel but on the way in 1994 the tow ropes broke and the ship ran aground and split in 2 famous pictures of the bow are on the internet.

in the story her fate is Sirius tryed to buy it in 1990 as a gift to miles but miles outbid him and then repaired into passenger service and used for south American cruise/rainforest experience under the name of SS Equator more of the fate revealed later in story.

I next chose to put the last of the American ships here SS Independence

SS Independence

built in 1951 the ship spent her entire life on Hawaiian cruises and after being pulled form service in 2001 was sold many times till finally in 2011 being scrapped.

story fate is Sirius bought this ship as a gift for miles after being (at the time unknownly) out bid by him on the america it was refit for around the world cruises and renamed SS Independent traveler and it on it first cruise when dumbledore strikes (fate revealed in next main chapter)

next is SS Cranberra the only (originally) British ship here

SS cranberra was completed in 1961 and was a ocean liner/cruise ship for PO she would be used

in the 1971 James bond move diamonds are forever amd in 1982 was a troopship in a Falklands war where due to her all white hull she was confused as being a hospital ship and so was undamaged dispite being right up close to the fighting she would be aold for scrap in 1997 and have a sing wrote for it final voyage

story fate bought by miles in early 1991 refit for artic/Antarctica cruises renamed SS Ice Master in service till 2019 when it became trapped in ice and sank 2 weeks later taking all of people on board with her due to difficult to rescue people from Antarctica amd not saltilite cover for the radios

next is MS Stockholm (now known as MS Astoria)

and was built in 1946 and was a trans Atlantic liner until 1960 when she was used for cruising during her time in the Atlantic in 1956 she collided with the Italian SS Andrea Doria Stockholm was fine (needed a new bow) Doria sank.

in 1991 she was put into refit in Italy and given her current real life look during that time being called the ship of death for the mentioned above accident

as of 2022 she is still in service although up for sale due to her old owners going bankrupt due to COVID

in story she was bought just before her 1991 refit by miles renamed SS Sonic and due to already having an near ice breaker bow also used on Antarctic routes and would be still in service by the time all human characters in the story die.

next is SS France originally form France she would be the pride if the nation form her being built in 1961 until sold to Norway renamed SS Norway and having and ugly refit in 1990 and scrapped in 2007 after a fire

story fate bought by miles in 1989 renamed SS Miles prower (after tails from sonic) she would be used in Caribbean cruises with her refit to be more cruise like but not look like shit (so basically her original look) and until 1996 would serve this route eat of fate to be revealed later.

Aleksandr Pushkin is the last ship here

built in the Soviet Union in 1965 was sold in 1991 to orient lines and renamed marco polo amd would later serve as a cruise ship with the same company as the Stockholm until in 2021 COVID bankrupted the company and Marco polo was scrapped.

in story fate bought by miles out biding orient lines mamed it SS Malta it was used Mediterranean cruises until hitting a left over mine from WW2 and sinking with no loss of life.

that's it next chapter would be out at a i don't know when.

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