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(...) The 15 inch Dahlgren was my model prototype, my lego cannon however, has the flatish butt end of the 15" Rodman (2 URLs) (...) Finally, someone likes my gun mount/carriage!! Thanks! I was just looking on the web for pics or drawings of early (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) I agree with Lindsay! kurt (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) It kind of looks like a 15" Dahlgren. I really like the inclusion of gearing on the carriage! LFB (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) That page is incorrect. The first steam-powered armed warship in North America was in fact Robert Fulton's catamaran-hulled center-paddler Demologos, completed in 1815 for the defence of New York and kept in service by the US Navy until its (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hi Kurt (...) Um - I think the Texans might have been nosed out by the Royal Navy. :) The British were using steam-powered gunboats on the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario in the winter of 1837-1838 to counter what today would be called (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Well I did it I got the disappearing gun mount working. But as can clearly be seen here (URL) I had to sacrifice almost all sense of historical accuracy in favor of functionality, But who knows these shots make it look pretty convincing: (2 URLs) (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Not to worry I've done the same thing with markers for some Star Wars figs. what do think of my latest "bad idea": Take a cut down lego rifle (the grey kind) and attach the cut down end to a gray painted light saber handle to produce a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) OK!! (...) Thanks, but you are allowed! (...) Actually Verne reused the name, in "From the Earth to the Moon" 1865. see: (URL) Columbiad(s) are a little to small, ;^) My cannon is in the 15 inch range. So you can see how I missed your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) -snip- No, No! Not wrong by any means! Pirate-era moonshot from gun development, is a reference to Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.... where they attempted a moonshot from a very large gun... I'm not meaning to question your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) I am confused!? The Texas Navy had a steam powered warship in 1838! "Predating any self-propelled vessels built by the U.S. Navy, Zavala had the distinction of becoming the first armed (steam) warship in North America." (URL) Do you think my (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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