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Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:45:36 GMT
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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 oinment, wouldn't you say?"
Kenneth Tam
In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 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...
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> 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?
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> > Meanwhile, we'll stay at least ten miles from that great greay beast of
> > yours, LFB.
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> Not a problem. Consider it a precocious child, nothing more.
> (Big kid!)
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> > Hardly sporting... *grumbles* armor piercing... *grumble* :-D
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> "Say, Nigel, did you just hear that?" (They're always named
> Nigel, aren't they?)
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> "What?"
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> "That noise. I think a steel barrel just passed clean
> through the ship and out the other side."
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> "You're crazy. No more rum for you!"
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> You know, I've gotta get these 9 or 10 hulls I have about, and
> make two neat little fleets and have a battle.
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> best
>
> LFB
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| (...) 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? (...) Not a problem. Consider it a precocious child, nothing more. (Big kid!) (...) "Say, Nigel, did you just hear that?" (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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