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Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:47:09 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> Flame's built to historical scale... mainly due to my lack of cannon...
> *grumbles*. Wait till I figure out how to build a Carronade! I'll load her
> down with 36-pounders and then we'll see who laughs...
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?
> Meanwhile, we'll stay at least ten miles from that great greay beast of
> yours, LFB.
Not a problem. Consider it a precocious child, nothing more.
(Big kid!)
> Hardly sporting... *grumbles* armor piercing... *grumble* :-D
"Say, Nigel, did you just hear that?" (They're always named
Nigel, aren't they?)
"What?"
"That noise. I think a steel barrel just passed clean
through the ship and out the other side."
"You're crazy. No more rum for you!"
You know, I've gotta get these 9 or 10 hulls I have about, and
make two neat little fleets and have a battle.
best
LFB
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 | | Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
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| 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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| | Re: First post to Pirates: HMS Flame
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| 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)
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