A bystander captured the spectacle Monday on video, which quickly went viral on social media. The song selection made waves across Europe.
Germany’s navy says there was “no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed— Darth Vader’s theme song in the “Star Wars” films — from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thames through London this week.
The warship was in the area for training and dropped anchor in London for a normal supply stop, the German navy said.“The commander can choose the music freely,” the navy said in a statement Thursday. “The choice of music has no deeper message.”, the 1979 hit from British rock band The Clash, upon its arrival in London.
The Braunschweig is named for a city in Germany’s Lower Saxony — an area far, far away from the UK — and part of the country’s newest class of ocean-going corvettes. For its departure, a tugboat pulled the warship down the river near Tower Bridge as sailors — without any lightsabers, sadly — stood on the deck. This trip was the Braunschweig’s second to the British capital, the Germany Embassy to London wrote on social media platform X.
The warship’s commander “is a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and an admirer of the legendary musical scores of John Williams,” the embassy said in a statement. “He chooses a different Williams tune whenever his ship is visiting a foreign harbor.”Get a note directly from our foreign
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