Read main thread: neat find
July 1st, 2005  
Rabs
Tribuni Angusticlavii
 
 
"The U.S. Navy does have a $9 million contract with Oregon Ironworks to build two boats, but a spokesman for the company says that despite "looking similar to the naked eye", the boat being tested on the river and the boats destined for the Navy are "not similar at all."

Looks like to me as if it was funded by the navy so who knows.
 
 
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