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Phleet Photos Phublished (Was: Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!)
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 04:57:50 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > Ahhh heck. You're right. What am I thinking of? Not culverins--those are • old
> > bronze art-deco cannon, though they were long...I think that may be the term • used
> > to refer to the long-range chasers as well.
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> > LFB
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> Long cannons were simply refered to as long cannons, or long (shot weight).
> E.G. Long 18s, long 12s, long 9s. Long versions of a shot size were
> considerably heavier than than non-long version, so often they were reserved as
> bow-chasers or stern-chasers.
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> I'm not sure if Culverin somehow indicated construction method, or if the term
> was attached to an older style (bronze with external ribbing?).
It was an older style, originally, but I think the term enjoyed something of a new
genesis in the 19th century--but in what context, I'm unsure.
As for my fleet, well, I have a few things up, now that my old B&W scanner is
working again:
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/indomitable.html (HMS Indomitable, the
battlecruiser.)
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/steamer.jpg (The steamer I mentioned before.)
Better detail pictures of everything forthcoming, now that I have a decent camera
*and* a scanner...arrrrrr.
LFB.
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| Mr L F Braun wrote (...) is (...) before.) I like it! I like it fine! HMS Indomitable is the finest example of the art that I think I have seen. If anything, I think its enhanced by the B&W. Not only does it reduce the pic to very realistic colours, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
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| (...) the (...) wench. (...) old (...) used (...) Long cannons were simply refered to as long cannons, or long (shot weight). E.G. Long 18s, long 12s, long 9s. Long versions of a shot size were considerably heavier than than non-long version, so (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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