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Originally Posted by cawest
maybe not. she had her keel laid in mar 97. this could be used as a propaganda tool. it also was built in the Duyfken Replica Ship Yard in Fremantle, Western Australia. It is not like this place would be working on modern warships. So she might have fight under a new flag, but she might have launched. without fuel this might force it to be finished and launched.
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An added complication is that the Garden Island Naval Base (Australia's west coast submarine base) and the Kwinana fuel refinery just across the water are moderately likely nuke targets. If so, Fremantle's port facilities would likely have taken at least minor tsunami damage, if not blast damage.
But I do like the idea of the Duyfken having made it to launching.