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Originally Posted by Brit
"The Paraguayan Navy's Humaitá-class river gunboats may well be regarded as ancient by most modern standards, but their longevity pales into insignificance when compared to that Navy's Capitán Cabral (ex-Triunfo, ex-Adolfo Riquelme), which was first launched in 1907!... She was certainly still in service in 2016 ... one hundred and eleven years after she was launched!"
Similar in Europe?
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Great find! I researched European military riverine vessels quite a bit for
Baltic Boats and didn't come across anything remotely that old. The oldest vessels used during the Cold War were constructed right around WW2 and, IIRC, those only served until the early 1960s.
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