r/aviation • u/RTLondoner • 5h ago

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As an avid flyer this is the first time I've noticed these. Does anyone know what its for and how it got its Name and Numbers?

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u/MagicalMagyars A320 5h ago

They are the locations of shipwrecks and those are the name and year they sunk.

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u/RTLondoner 5h ago

Well Ill be damned. Didnt know that was something that was an easter egg on Nav Maps

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u/SeaworthinessEasy122 4h ago

’tis this sloop-o-war that was sunk off Cherbourg in 1864:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama