 | | 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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