A bit of an omake that struck me...
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Hands held behind his back as the Summoning Ceremony continued, Rear Admiral Russel Shepard barely held back a sigh. While the Navy was still summoning ships, the amount that the Coast Guard had been summoning had slowed to a trickle. And now here he was trying yet again to get another ship. Feeling a hand pat him on the arm though, Shepard looked beside him to see Alex, as USCGC Alexander Hamilton liked to be called, giving him a smile. "I got a good feeling about this, Sir."
Frowning, Shepard shook his head. "That makes one of us at least." With a grimace, he sighed. "You know that the Navy has been pushing to be granted use of our Summoning Chambers for a while now. if we don't manage something soon..."
All his Secretary Ship did was shake her head. "We will. If that Professor out west, Crowning, is right then we should have sank enough tonnage of Abyssal Subs for at least some..." It was then that she felt something and whipped her head around to look at the pool. "... Thing..."
Eyes wide, Shepard turned toward the water himself. "Is something coming through?"
Slowly, Alex nodded. "I think so..."
Then there was a disturbance on the water and a woman appeared standing on it. She looked older then any of the other Coast Guard shipgirls and was wearing a dress right out of the 1900s. However, she wore a Coast Guard uniform jacket over the dress as she looked around. More odd though was what looked like a length of board on one arm. Frowning, Shepard furrowed his eyebrows and was about to say something when Campbell spoke up. "COBB! YOU'RE BACK!"
Having spotted the Cutter, the woman's eyes widened. "Campbell...?" It was then that she spotted the Admiral and saluted. "Um... Sir! USCGS Cobb, WPG-181 reporting!"
It took a moment for Shepard to place the name, but once he did he returned the salute with a grin that boarded on the savage. He was just able to hold back his laughter at their good luck. "Good to have you back, Cobb. Ready to kill some Subs?"
With a smile on her face, Cobb, the world's first Helicopter Carrier, nodded. "That was what I was supposed to do, Sir. Now I get to do it."
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Yes, I know the rules about Carriers. But this was too good to pass up and unlike other Carriers, Cobb didn't get to prove herself. She was a modification of the coastal Steamboat, SS Governor Cobb and was supposed to carry helicopters for ASW work. However, by the time that she was ready, the Uboat threat had dropped to the point where they didn't bother using her for such, mainly just training. She was finally scrapped because, due to her age, she spent a lot of time in the docks getting repaired. hence, her coming back to prove herself at what she was supposed to do.
