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"Marc Nelson Jr." wrote:
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> In lugnet.castle.ninja, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.castle.ninja, John Robert-Blaze Kanehl writes:
> > > In lugnet.castle.ninja, Marc Nelson, Jr. writes:
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> > > > Well, you have definitely inspired me - I already have my pirate crew
> > > > assembled, and I'm going to start working on my junk today. I have some
> > > > questions about Japanese naval history (for you or anybody else who knows):
> > > > -did junks ever carry cannon?
> > >
> > > To the best of my knowledge, junks (later called san-pans) were
> > > Chinese/Korean in origin.
> >
> > I think there's a minor difference between full-blown junks
> > and sampans (sorry, I learned the spelling used by the US Navy
> > during WWII--as maru traffic vanished, US subs began spending
> > torpedoes on sampans...and quays, and bridges, and anything
> > else--in one case a warhead was used to blow up a train. But
> > I digress, as usual).
>
> Was the train in the water? Can you recommend any good books about submarines
> the Pacific theater? I've read the Pacific volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's
> History of US Naval Operations, but I don't remember there being too much in
> there about subs.
"Blind Man's Bluff" is a great book about the history of submarine
warfare.
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> >
> > Incidentally, buccaneer crews were often a pastiche. A pirate
> > who started out 'Japanese' would quickly pick up new crew in
> > the act of piracy or at ports-of-call, and lose original crew
> > in battle or (more often) to disease, so after a couple of years
> > it might be more a Moluccan or Madurese crew than a Japanese
> > one. In the Atlantic, for example, crews were almost equal
> > parts African, European, and 'mixed' Caribbean/North American,
> > with no designated 'identity' beyond that of the captain.
Japanese pirates during the period that the Ninja sets apply often
picked up Koreans from ports they raided as part of the crew.
Chris
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