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Strange ships in Port Brique
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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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