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Re: What class is my ship?
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:48:05 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, David Simmons writes:
> > Greetin's ye swabs!
Arrr. Welcome to Pirates. Here's yer parrot and yer peg leg...
> > I recently expanded my BSB by adding two hull sections and a third mast. It
> > is now capable of holding eight cannons. Does this particular configuration
> > fall into a definable ship category. I'd like to be able to describe it
> > accurately to my non-Lego friends. BTW, did ships ever have a torch or
> > light mounted on the rear of a mast? I have mine set up that way and really
> > like the look of it, but I'm not sure if it's historically accurate.
I always loved doing that too. IIRC, later sailing ships did include such
lamps--held a ways away from the mast itself, naturally, and enclosed as fully as
possible--to be seen from a distance. I do like the looks of it in any case, and
if you want to do it, who's to say--it's a fictional ship! :) I think that as
long as there's a lookout up top, a lamp of some kind is likely to be present for
identification and signalling.
> It depends on the rigging of the ship and whose definitions you want to use. A
> three-masted square-rigged ship is a "ship". Cannon aren't really proportional
> on Lego vessels, so it's kind of hard to use them in the definition. Go here:
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> http://www.halcyon.com/wanttaja/rigs.gif
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> ...to get some some general idea of what mast/sail combinations get defined as
> what. Of course, many countries had many defintions for specific types of
> ships based on their hull, upper decks, sails, intent, etc.
I'd bet he's ship-rigged, or at least a hybrid. (Brig or the like--I chuckled at
"hermaphrodite brig." I wonder where that term came from?) But you could probably
call it a sloop (very piratey!) or a brig (ditto, but IMHO less so)--but weren't a
lot of real pirate ships in fact converted merchantmen?
best
Lindsay
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| (...) Grog! Where be the grog? The parrot I be having says nuthin' what one would call nautical yet. But he sez, "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!" One has to be careful what ones sez in front o' a clever parrot. (and I only said it once!) (...) It (...) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) It depends on the rigging of the ship and whose definitions you want to use. A three-masted square-rigged ship is a "ship". Cannon aren't really proportional on Lego vessels, so it's kind of hard to use them in the definition. Go here: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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