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Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
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Date: 
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:47:09 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
Flame's built to historical scale... mainly due to my lack of cannon...
*grumbles*. Wait till I figure out how to build a Carronade! I'll load her
down with 36-pounders and then we'll see who laughs...

   Not the guy who's gotta careen the ship, that's for certain.
   Did they ever actually toss 36-pounders on a brig or sloop?

Meanwhile, we'll stay at least ten miles from that great greay beast of
yours, LFB.

   Not a problem.  Consider it a precocious child, nothing more.
   (Big kid!)

Hardly sporting... *grumbles* armor piercing... *grumble* :-D

   "Say, Nigel, did you just hear that?"  (They're always named
    Nigel, aren't they?)

   "What?"

   "That noise.  I think a steel barrel just passed clean
    through the ship and out the other side."

   "You're crazy.  No more rum for you!"

   You know, I've gotta get these 9 or 10 hulls I have about, and
   make two neat little fleets and have a battle.

   best

   LFB



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  Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
 
36-pounder Carronades, the did. If they tried to put a real long-barreled 36 on a sloop the poor thing'd sink like a stone! And after our lad Nigel gets his spirit ration cut, the Captain looks off to starboard agape. "Oh dear, that's a fly in the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
 
Gentlemen, gentlemen. Hardly sporting! Apples, oranges, and... giant, armoured, heavily armed... grapes... we're comparing here. Flame's built to historical scale... mainly due to my lack of cannon... *grumbles*. Wait till I figure out how to build (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)

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