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    Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame —Tony Priestman
   Nice ship. I like the 2x2 square masts - gives a whole new meaning to square rigged :-) But this isn't a broadside: (URL) is a broadside: (URL) back & waits for arms race :-) On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Kenneth Tam (<GJCGuG.B5F@lugnet.com>) wrote at (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame —Lindsay Frederick Braun
   (...) Oooh, can't keep you waiting, that just wouldn't be right. *THIS* is a broadside. If anyone cares to exchange fire, we'll be about 6km over there ------> (URL) [1] ;-D BTW, I still can't get over how good those gunports look (looked?), Tony. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame —Kenneth Tam
   Gentlemen, gentlemen. Hardly sporting! Apples, oranges, and... giant, armoured, heavily armed... grapes... we're comparing here. Flame's built to historical scale... mainly due to my lack of cannon... *grumbles*. Wait till I figure out how to build (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame —Lindsay Frederick Braun
   (...) Not the guy who's gotta careen the ship, that's for certain. Did they ever actually toss 36-pounders on a brig or sloop? (...) Not a problem. Consider it a precocious child, nothing more. (Big kid!) (...) "Say, Nigel, did you just hear that?" (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
   
        Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame —Kenneth Tam
   36-pounder Carronades, the did. If they tried to put a real long-barreled 36 on a sloop the poor thing'd sink like a stone! And after our lad Nigel gets his spirit ration cut, the Captain looks off to starboard agape. "Oh dear, that's a fly in the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.pirates)
 

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