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(...) Not really suited for the seafarer. They tended to use the League, Fathom and Cable. Don't have the specifics for each at hand, but might be able to locate. Like the Story, am sorry my own Lego Dark Age lasted through Pirates. Hope they (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ray Sanders wrote (...) For every fact there is at least one person who knows it. This internet thingie - very clever! Thanks Ray. Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Quoting from the book [1]: <quote> Units of Linear Measure 1 chain = 100 links = 66 feet 1 mile = 80 chains = 5280 feet Units of Area 1 acre = 10 square chains = 43,560 square feet 1 square mile = 640 acres The chain unit, devised in the seventeenth (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Tony Priestman wrote (...) Cool. Anyone know how long a chain was? How about a league? And a fathom was about 6 feet, yes? And thanks for the email - I'll get those corrections sorted out over the weekend. regards Richard Still baldly going... Check (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) boat. I (...) notice (...) Really? So I turn the wheel left to steer right. I didn't know that. I though only airplanes were that cock-eyed. And despite having taken the wheel of HMS Bounty (the one they (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) -- Scott A My Lego Site : (URL) List : (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Guys, Now I know replying to your own posts is not exactly de rigeur, but I could use the expertise of someone who knows something about sailing ships. John E Doolittle has managed to rescue the (I've had just about enough of thinking of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) As long as there were wooden ships, boarding pike and axe, along with the sword, continued as weapons. The ships transitioned away from the high fore and stern castles as the emphasis grew on the actual cannon. Without cannon, the ships are (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fp0A9s.4wq@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:05:52 (...) 200 yards. (...) More when I've read it myself :-) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Avast Ye Swabbies!! There be plenty of precedent for a cannon armed ship without the hand guns. Henry VIII's 'Mary Rose' had lots of guns and the men were armed with pikes, swords and bows. Obviously the new set is in the transition age (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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