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| (...) Just so. Sneaking is a business for the night, I find, and thus is best left to port, where you have firm locations on targets. Guns hardly play a part then (unless you face a particularly diligent crew). I wouldn't care to try to run down a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) (Just did a quick scan of the house...) Certainly the Endeavour (albeit a barque) in the mide-late 18th century and the Supply (albeit a brig) in the late 18th/early 19th century had and used spritsails as well as jibs... I've seen a print of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) <snip> That's an impressive force! I do like the torso designs. (...) (URL) ? (...) Well, if one was planning a long voyage, the Misérable would be the vessel for the trip. Actually, with the abundance of white BURPS at the moment, I'm (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Which is a nice idea, but it appears to be most un-French. If the Misérable were a British vessel, where the captain dined on stodgy salt pork and pease the smell of gunpowder could only improve the meal, but on a French Vessel, gunpowder in (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) ;-) One has to have *something* to intimidate, after all. (Yes, a three masted, twelve gunned, sloop of war (three centre sections) - a 'pocket frigate' perhaps. And without a Hornblower clone to be seen!) Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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