Doesn't say what happens next though. Let's hope it doesn't miraculously 'disappear'. "The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the coast of Uruguay, where the Graf Spee had been scuttled in 1939 to stop it falling into enemy hands. A court ruled last year that it belonged to the Uruguayan state, in whose waters it was found. The country's president had proposed turning it into a sculpture of a dove. President Luis Lacalle Pou had announced the plan to melt down the bronze eagle, which weighs 350kg (770 lb), on Friday. The eagle, which has a wingspan of 2.8m (9.2ft) and is 2m high, clutches a large swastika. It had been lying on the bottom of the River Plate since 1939, when the captain of the Admiral Graf Spee had scuttled her soon after the first major naval battle of the Second World War. He feared the ship could reveal valuable German secrets if seized by the British. The Graf Spee had been a great threat to the Allied forces in WWII, having sunk eight merchant ships between the outbreak of war in September 1939 and its scuttling in December of that year. "It occurred to us that this symbol of war could undergo a transformation into a symbol of peace or union, like a dove," the president had said on Friday. A Uruguayan sculptor, Pablo Atchugarry, had been commissioned to recast the eagle. Mr Atchugarry accepted what he called the "challenge of transforming hate, war and destruction into a symbol of peace". But just two days later, President Lacalle Pou announced that the idea had been shelved. "In the few hours that have passed [since the announcement], an overwhelming majority of people has come forward who don't share the decision. When you aim for peace, the first thing you need to do is create unity and this [idea] clearly didn't," Mr Lacalle Pou said. He did not say what would happen to the bronze now." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65943819
1. The "propeller" is properly called a "screw" or Archimedes screw. And I don't see mention of either in what you posted. Curious.
When I was in Engineman School at Great Lakes, Illinois, you could get extra duty for calling a screw a propeller.
WIKI: A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.
Variable pitch screws are fun but the technology, last I heard, was a bit weak. Instead of a throttleman, the bridge crew just turns a knob and the prop responds by changing pitch while not changing speed of the screw. More pitch, more "bite" on the water and the more speed (hopefully) produced. This is '80s tech for me, probably wildly out of date.
