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Hmmm...seems you Brickish folk are getting a bit too smug. Bearing that in mind, the Repubrickan Navy (the fine and egalitarian institution it is) has decided to send a...presence out to yonder Pacific-type points. This is no wee sloop; rather, it's (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fr2E0y.Bsu@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:29:22 (...) Oh *yes*! I've only just taken a look. What an excellent page! (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Oh hey, I'll drink to that! Whish way ish the grog? Captain Morgan, I hope. (...) (by (...) so (...) in (...) fact (...) 1798 (...) anything (...) name of (...) more (...) Gun ratings were the golf-handicaps of their day. :-) I remember the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi, I looked at the subject line and thought someone'd had a bit too much of the grog...*hIc!* (...) There were some real monsters among those first-rates, however. I remember, in particular, the French ship L'Orient, which was *rated* at 120 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) through 4th class. Frigates were 5th and 6th (The American super-frigates could be argued to be 4th class, I imagine). Everything else was unrated (by the British system, at least). I'm not sure when this rating system began - so earlier (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Which class of ship is the largest? A man of war? Was there anything larger? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, James Powell (<Fr2s0n.KDE@lugnet.com>) wrote at 23:31:35 (...) Well, I'm working towards 74, but the current project will probably stick at 28 or so :-) It uses hull pieces, and so far, it looks ok. Haven't got to the gun deck (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) came (...) they (...) "Frigate" (...) else (...) still). (...) Sloops and brigs aren't "ship" rigged, so aren't frigates and not rated under the english system - but then the english designations are so loopy at times I'm not sure they know (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) When? One is enough now, and it can be a middling 57mm one to boot :) I know, you are talking historically, and I would think that what Linsay posted was likely right. I think it had a lot to do with who was doing the naming too...since the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) It does depend on which navy you're talking about. Most things called a "Frigate" in colloquial literature are 5th-rates; 6th-rates are often called something else (often "sloops" or "brigs" despite those classes' usually being smaller (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Mr L F Braun (<38C53F44.D944207C@....msu.edu>) wrote at 17:41:24 (...) Hmmm. This is what I thought. Need a longer ship :( (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) 24 is the lowest number I know of, though if you check out the source I list below, they note 20. Part of what determines a frigate is its rigging, so cannon is not the only criteria. They tended to get larger as the 1700s came to a close and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well, I will have to finish "The Junk" now that there is a new port of call = ) ....now if I could only get this sail made out of Ninja glider wings to work... (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) As far as I know, it depends on how many cannon a ship is designed to carry. I think that 28 or 32 was the standard minimum as of 1800; I don't know of too many with fewer cannon. On the other hand, the Humphreys frigates in the US did carry (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Can anyone give me a quick answer to this: How many cannon does a ship have to have to be considered a frigate? Or let me put it another way: Is 24 or 26 going to be enough? (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Though I suppose any scallywags calling Port Block junk would not be welcome... :) Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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So I'm roaming about the net, as one is wont to do, and I stumble upon this (URL) seems to me, bearing in mind the sort of tales I like to tell at Port Block, that Pugwash ought to be cited as a key source. There seem to me to be definite (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Junk is always welcome at Port Block. There's plenty of it here, and the Brickish are always sending more. That's what we're here for ;-) The only real problem is getting the junk to work - they're always complaining about too much pain, too (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) largest (...) of (...) over 200m (...) 40,000 (...) these (...) I suppose the eunuchs all sailed at half-mast.... (ok, bad joke!) Seriously, though, a Chinese merchant / pirate fleet would be so cool! Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Let me know when you see one--I can't go into the basement atm, it's full of sewage (arrr, seas for me pirates to sail upon...not) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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