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British Royal Navy

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A one-man submersible was built in 1775 in America, and it was to fight British Royal Navy ships. If you imagine a kind of acorn or lemon-shaped thing that's big enough to keep one man in, and that floats just under the water, and then it's got a little knobbly bit on the top that sticks above the water with windows in, and you put your head up in that bit so you can see the ships.

from 128: No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 at 00:01:04 ยท read transcript

Other times British Royal Navy came up

  1. They barely brought any agricultural equipment. They sort of arrived and just went, okay, we just need to make do. They had a few people like the Royal Navy who were out there, the British Royal Navy, who were trying to police a few things, but that wasn't their job and it's not what they were doing. They said, we need a police force, and they realized we have no police.

    No Such Thing As The Very Sexy Caterpillar, 2018-11-30 ยท listen

  2. This is because when they got there, the first fleets that went out to Australia, they were very underprepared, they barely brought any agricultural equipment, they sort of arrived and just went, okay, we just need to make do. They had a few people like the Royal Navy who were out there, the British Royal Navy, who were trying to police a few things, but that wasn't their job and it's not what they were doing.

    245: No Such Thing As The Very Sexy Caterpillar, 2018-11-30 ยท listen

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