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Subject:	Strange ships in Port Brique
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates
Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2002 06:27:49 GMT
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Ahoy! The HMLS Snottler III in Port Brique - Impossiblé you say! Not at all: www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/pol_0001.jpg www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/pol_0006.jpg www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/pol_0007.jpg (Apparently it was taking part in the Philidendron Project - a top secret project which aimed to disquise large naval ships as harmless potted plants, and which went terribly awry). And the Black Seas Barracuda sailed in too: www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/pol_0013.jpg It seems the BSB was in search of a shipyard and chandler to do something about its woefully inadequate broadside... Cheers Richie Dulin

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		Re: Strange ships in Port Brique
Oh sure, drum up the arms race, why don't you? It was a nice clean argument between ports full of sailing ships and then you have to bring a modern destroyer into it... Hey, wait a second, HMLS... HER MAJESTY'S! Please tell me she arrived in port (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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