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Great Ships and an Argument for the Anti-Autonomous Ship Crew

By Rik van Hemmen nother trip around the sun and Greg has greatest ships were Rhine barges with cars on them. I am talk- asked me once again to talk about “great ing about the inland cargo vessels that ran up and down the ships.” As an older engineer I ? nd it Rhine and through the rest of the European canal and river much more dif? cult to judge greatness systems. As a six-year-old, I found the the Rhine barges with in ships. It was much easier when I was cars were so much cooler than Rhine barges without cars. And young. When I was quite young and liv- then my mother told me that often those barges were operated ing near the Dutch rivers, I thought the by a husband and wife and often the children were aboard too.

A “As a six-year-old, I found the Rhine barges with cars were so much cooler than Rhine barges without cars” writes the author.

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