 | | Re: her majesty's new sloop! HMS Tempest has arrived! —Stephen Rowe
| | | | (...) hi wes, thanks for the help with the rigging difficulty i had, i rerigged it correctly i believe. i put up some new pics. anyway, i have seen the definition of a sloop as a single masted vessel, butthere are also other definitions in all 3 of (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: her majesty's new sloop! HMS Tempest has arrived! —Bruce Schlickbernd
| | | | | (...) Basically, the British are to blame. They used terms in conflicting ways, and then got sloppy (or is that sloopy?) about it. It's a "sloop of war" (class of ship, rather than rigging type), but since that is kinda tedious to say it was simply (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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