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Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:30:07 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> > In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > > _The Art of War_ makes that one of its central tenets--not the "manhandle • the
> > > horses" thing, but "don't hit them where they're strongest". Wheel out the • long
> > > carronades and circle 'em with sloops! Arrr...1588 all over again.
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> > > I can perhaps understand the horses--after all, there's only one pirate • wench.
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> > > LFB.
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> > Them carronades be throwing a big ball a short ways. Good fer poundin' in
> > close. "Long carronades" be what they call an oxymoron (I be an eddicated
> > pyrate).
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> Ahhh heck. You're right. What am I thinking of? Not culverins--those are • old
> bronze art-deco cannon, though they were long...I think that may be the term • used
> to refer to the long-range chasers as well.
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> LFB
Long cannons were simply refered to as long cannons, or long (shot weight).
E.G. Long 18s, long 12s, long 9s. Long versions of a shot size were
considerably heavier than than non-long version, so often they were reserved as
bow-chasers or stern-chasers.
I'm not sure if Culverin somehow indicated construction method, or if the term
was attached to an older style (bronze with external ribbing?).
Bruce
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