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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> > I like that cannon... I'll try building one!
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> Woohoo! A franchise! : )
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> > I've alway's liked carronades, and I really like how realistic that
> > carronade is, but its a bit big for my ship! :(
> > (it'll be done soon, I promise!)
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> Good old Carronades! You could probably squeeze a *couple* in! : )
Oh I have- 2 on the Forcastle. But their pitifully simple! :)
>
> > What makes you think that Lego cannons are 18-pounders? I think their more
> > around 24.
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> Well, I actually puzzled over this for hours. In stud-feet, Lego cannon are
> about 6 or 7 feet long, making them only as long as short 12s. But their
> bore is a foot!
Using Dave Eaton's conversion tool, assuming that a the average person is
5.9 feet, a cannon is 7.87 minifig feet, rounded to 8.
(http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi is the conversion tool)
How does this measure up? Anybody got any cannon length resources?
-JHK
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There's a calculator for these things? Oh my, I've been working under the 1
stud = 1 foot system (based on the principle that each fig foot is one stud,
and so one 'imperial' foot).
I'm working from 'The Line Of Battle' (Conway's History of the Ship), Brian
Lavery's excellent 'Nelson's Navy', and Bernard Ireland's 'Naval Warfare in
the Age of Sail' for my measurements on gun size...
So, an 8 foot long gun comes up as...
- One of Congreve's 'Cannonade' 24-pounders, c 1812
- A French 8-pounder
- A Short 9-pounder
- A Long 6-pounder
Acording to Ireland, a 12-pounder would be 8.5 feet and 18-pounder would
come out at 9 feet. His tables show a 24-pounder to be at least 9 -- as a
long gun, at least.
So aside from the Carronade-Cannon hybrids designed in the second decade of
the 19th century, it seems there weren't many big-calibre guns at 8 feet.
However, Lego Cannon still seem big enough to count as heavy guns... and
since they're little plastic tubes, not weighty iron guns... put it this
way, I think we all have licence to use them as we want.
18s, 24s, 36s -- oh my!
Uh-oh, I think Nelson's ghost is coming to beat me...
; )
Kenneth Tam
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