Is there a seafaring culture in your country?
>>226024466no, merchant marines are for flips, indians, slavs, and uhh one or two nords o algoodd perhaps, considering if we got cut off by sea that would be very bad
yeah, we added a protection racket too
>>226024466In the past the coastal and even riverine areas were very prominent when it came to shipfaring. But as many shipyards have closed or severely downsized their operations over the last decades I doubt that it is as strong as it once was. Still the maritime heritage is very prominent in northern Germany.
>>226024466For Britons and Normans a bit too but mostly the firstLots of our sea shanties are Britonhttps://youtu.be/b8S16N7DUvY?is=P79lL90TjwkPXV25
>>226025468The Wappen von Hamburg is one of my favorite ships. It had a multi tiered baroque stern mirror which had a lavish and highly detailed gallery system designed by a master sculptor. Very cool ship.
>>226025567For me its the Alder von Lübeck from the 1560s. It mixed carvel and clinker construction methods and was in this uneasy, transitionary but very interesting spot where late medieval ships would eventually transform into 17th century ships of the line.
No we just build shipsWe're also surprisingly good at it for some reason
>>226025499This is a great shanty. Thank you for sharing.
>>226025666>weYou've never built anything with your own 2 hands, faggot.
>>226025773hivan...
>>226025807>russian is when you say something I don't likeThe butthurt belt is real kek
>>226025843no one else says butthurt belt either, hivan
>>226024466Yes, Utah is known for its navy if nothing else. Sailing the great salt lake in search for plunder and booty yarr.
>>226024466No but I do find our women unappealing enough to try anyway.
>>226025857I do because of being exposed to your kindYou are schizophrenic, if not you are too low IQ to ever be happy in life or achieve anything
>>226025666Pekka don't helm
>>226024466Kind of. I sailed to china on this ship from Norway and did this dailyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IprZEi-yaDo
I have so many experiences like it feels like a different life. I went to 30 places. Morocco, Portugal, Panama, Curacao, Fiji, Easter Island, New Caledonia, Australia to mention a few. I Worked from 0630 to 22, then i had sometimes night watch and had to stand in front of the ship and look for lights for four hours, or helms the ship or do inspections. We climbed up and stood on steel wires and packed sails, you just had to ignore the wind and the noise, just focus on the task.
>>226026032Cool. Sounds hard, did you feel adventurous at all?
>>226026032Legit
>>226025950"low IQ" sounds dumb by the way. just say "stupid".
>>226025069there are Greeks too
>>226025965Damn, very impressive! Did you get specialised training for such tasks?
>>226024466You have the coastal fisherman tradition, cruise ship culture and boat hobbyists, but that's mostly it, if you don't count ship- and boat building.
>>226024466In Åland it's the way of life
>>226024466yes our coastal submarines sink your supercarriers every time
>>226024466Only on the west coast. The Baltic Coast barely has any nautical culture. Compare the port of Stockholm with the port of Gothenburg. Stockholm has a teeny weeny harbor
>>226026811But Stockolm has like 30 000 islands?
>>226026032how was the pay?
>>226024466According to Britroach naval historian Andrew Lambert, the US is not a naval power at all and lacks a true "seapower culture" unlike the UK, Netherlands, Venice and even Japan, but is instead a continental land power for which naval power is ancillary and non-essential, and in which it is fundamentally disinterested. In pic related, he insults America several times thusly:>"In the Cold War the sea occupied a marginal strategic role, a ‘flank’ to be secured and a supply line to be protected. While contemporary America possesses a vast military navy, it thinks and acts like a land power. Britain does not.">"After 1956 Western sea power was reduced to the collective effort of medium- sized sea states, led by the wholly continental agendas of the United States.">"The US neither needed nor wanted a global sea- control navy, but it was most anxious that Britain should not have one. By cutting the scale of British naval strength the Washington process reduced the strategic weight and diplomatic impact of naval force in world politics between 1922 and 1941."
>>226026032Sounds really harsh, but cool. Was the pay any good?
Nope
>>226026937You're going to say I'm seething or something but that is utter nonsense and he obviously has a bone to pick with the US because he imagines we're the reason he can't live his wet dream of being in a Hornblower or Aubrey-Maturin novel. It was by being a global sea power that we first became an empire in 1898. Sea power was essential to Roosevelt's philosophy on power projection (not really his, it was invented by Alfred Thayer Mahan but not named that at the time he invented it), and that's why he pushed so hard to complete a Central American canal. The Pacific Theater in WW2 was heavily dependent on naval success - a land army couldn't have defeated the Japanese. In the Cold War and today, our ability to put ballistic missile subs up our adversaries' asses and nuke them instantly is vital to the Nuclear Triad, which are equally important an codependent.
