Author's Note: I created lawyer-friendly versions of Phineas and Ferb's "Doofenshmirtz's Two Nickels" meme and Breaking Bad's "What Are You Talking About?" meme for this comic.
Fun Fact: Denmark preserved two submarines of the Royal Danish Navy bearing the name HDMS Springeren. One was a Delfinen-class submarine with the pennant number S329. The other was a Norwegian-made Tumleren-class submarine with the pennant number S324 and was formerly the Norwegian submarine HNoMS Kya. For those wondering what the Tumleren-class is, it's a subclass of Norway's Kobben-class submarines designated for second-hand export to Denmark. In June 2004, Denmark's Ministry of Defence decided to decommission their submarine flotilla and cease operating submarines altogether. Of Denmark's four remaining submarines at the time the announcement was made, HDMS Tumleren was scrapped while the Swedish-made Näcken-class submarine HDMS Kronborg was returned to Sweden, only to be scrapped in 2016 after another 11 years of serving the Swedish flag. The other two remaining Danish submarines became museum ships after their decommissioning. It just so happens that there was a museum ship named HDMS Springeren when HDMS Springeren (S324) was turned into a museum ship. However, both submarines have different pennant numbers and are from different classes, so there was very little confusion when it comes to distinguishing between the two, if any at all. These two submarines are located in different locations in Denmark a few hundred kilometers away from each other. HDMS Springeren (S329) is located in the Aalborg Maritime Museum while HDMS Springeren (S324) is located in the Langelandsfort Cold War Museum in Bagenkop.
If you happen to visit Denmark, you might want to visit some of their museum ships that once served Denmark from the Cold War years up until 2004.
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