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Originally Posted by Olefin
FYI one idea on doing an evac would take a while but could be done with Australian help
Ever heard of the sail passenger ship Wind Song - she was a sail powered passenger ship that could carry 112 passengers that was involved in Pacific cruises - obviously they would jam a lot more into her - it is one way to evac several hundred at a time out of Korea - but thats a mighty slow evac process with 15,000 troops to get home
There is another possible way to get them to Australia - Four coal-fired, steam-powered ships were used to transport bauxite from Weipa in far north Queensland to QAL on Gladstone Harbour - all built in the 1980's and retired the last of them in 2012 - the River Boyne
Could those ships be used to evac troops from Korea? Not sure what their range would be and if they could actually reach Korea, possibly coal up there and then be able to get back to Australia.
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This is probably more cinematic than practical, but one dramatic way of doing it would be to use the various large tall ships that are active - USCGC Eagle, Elissa (a barquentine built in 1877), Gazela (a 1901 fishing bark that hauled dories to the Grand Banks), Niagara (the rebuilt USS Niagara of 1813), Avany (now Peacemaker, a 400 ton bark), Star of India (ex-Euterpe, an iron-hulled windjammer), and Rose (now Surprise, the replica frigate used in the Master & Commander film). The Charles W. Morgan (an 1841 whaler) may also be available.
The Constellation is unavailable (it was condemned as unseaworthy in 1994 and wasn't sailed again until 2004 in our timeline, and the Twilight War would likely make her less of a priority), and the Constitution is probably unavailable (she was dry-docked from 1992 to 1995 and not ready to sail until 1997).