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Maybe not the kayak part, but an RC battleship sure would be fun.

Here's my battleship. Well, destroyer, anyway. Not RC, but I'm working on that.

I have too much stuff already, but I couldn't resist looking at this "hand-made destroyer" advertised in the local buy-and-sell paper, especially since, though it was described as electrically-powered, it was said to have a "small steam engine" with it.

Even though it's huge (the case is 4 feet long), I dragged it home, and a bit of questioning of the former owner revealed that his grandfather, an immigrant from England and thereafter a resident of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, spent over four years of his time in the 1920's building a model of HMS Lance, the destroyer that fired the first British shot of WWI on August 5, 1914, and assisted in sinking the German mine-layer Konigin Luise in the same action (first German ship sunk in the war).

Oh. The small steam engine is in a corner, and it runs fine.

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