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rjsw on July 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ship that failed to change the world

It also makes it easy to generate steam for the catapults.

a3n on July 26, 2014 [–]

True. Interesting to note, though, that steam catapult's days are numbered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_catapult#Future

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