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USS Independence was right, this IS the most beautiful ship in the world.
Its sister ship was given to the USSR as war reparation and they let it rot for a while, later converted it to carry timber and then it caught fire
What a waste.
This pic adds SO much context for size to the OP image, I love it.
It is a gorgeous ship
Yup, that ship could get it anytime.
Here's an archive of Wikipedia's cited source for the story.
I kind of feel like a US ship is a bit biased towards ships named after the country/continent's own namesake, but it is impressive. It was launched in 1931, but it's modelled after ships of the line from the late 1700s.
Following a not wholly dissimilar idea, there is also German training ship Gorch Fock.
Thing is, the Amerigo is huge, you wouldn't tell from the pictures, it's got over 2 times the displacement of the Gorch Fock
Huh, I did not know that. Neat.