Date:         Mon, 7 May 2007 13:46:37 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      (NVC) Re: (LVC) Oh, The Humanity!... zeppelins & sister-ships
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>Today marks the 70th anniversary of the crash of another example of
>German engineering
>(besides the Vanagon), the Hindenburg (LZ-129), and I am in no way
>implying that the
>crash was a result of German engineering. Her sister ship, the Graf
>Zeppelin (LZ 127)
>made 650 flights, traveling more than 1,000,000 miles throughout the
>world. Go here
>for more info:
>     http://www.nlhs.com/hindenburg.htm
>...and check those fuel lines!
>Jerry

Technically the two zeppelins (aan aside, very few people seem to
know that zeppelins are not dirigibles are not blimps are not
balloons) were not sister-ships, as they were not of the same design.
Sister-ships are those of a particular design eg:

Bismark & Tirpitz
King George V, Prince of Wales, Howe, Anson
Missouri, New Jersey
Essex, Franklin, Hancock, Intrepid etc
Titanic, Olympic

You could call two T3s sister "ships", but not a T1
(Split-windshield) and a T3.

People often talk about ships owned by the same line as being "sister
ships"... but that's not right. It's not twins, but identical twins,
that makes sister-ships.
--
Regards
Andrew