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USS Pueblo
A difference between Oriental & Occidental ship designs. A difference between the Western man's mission and the Eastern man's objective...probably wealth verses strictly exploration.
At the end of World War I the United States, Great Britain, and Japan all began large scale programs of capital ship construction. This rapid building led to a naval arms race. The Washington Naval Conference was held to limit warship construction on all sides.The Kellogg-Briand pact was a bilateral treaty to outlaw war caused by expansionist aggression.
Severe shortages of all kinds, relieved only by fast, light blockade-running vessels, mostly bringing in luxuries, not war supplies.
Well, "large" is pretty vague. However, the "20 and odd" Africans that were first brought to the English colonies of America were brought to Jamestown VA in 1607. For some years it was believed they were aboard a Dutch naval vessel, but it now appears it was an English Privateer, the White Lion, that had taken the slaves from a Portugese ship enroute to Mexico.