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Re: What class is my ship?
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:05:26 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, David Simmons writes:
> Greetin's ye swabs!
>
> I recently expanded my BSB by adding two hull sections and a third mast. It
> is now capable of holding eight cannons. Does this particular configuration
> fall into a definable ship category. I'd like to be able to describe it
> accurately to my non-Lego friends. BTW, did ships ever have a torch or
> light mounted on the rear of a mast? I have mine set up that way and really
> like the look of it, but I'm not sure if it's historically accurate.
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> Dave
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> --
> "There is no end, no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of
> life." -Federico Fellini
It depends on the rigging of the ship and whose definitions you want to use. A
three-masted square-rigged ship is a "ship". Cannon aren't really proportional
on Lego vessels, so it's kind of hard to use them in the definition. Go here:
http://www.halcyon.com/wanttaja/rigs.gif
...to get some some general idea of what mast/sail combinations get defined as
what. Of course, many countries had many defintions for specific types of
ships based on their hull, upper decks, sails, intent, etc.
Bruce
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| (...) Arrr. Welcome to Pirates. Here's yer parrot and yer peg leg... (...) I always loved doing that too. IIRC, later sailing ships did include such lamps--held a ways away from the mast itself, naturally, and enclosed as fully as possible--to be (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Greetin's ye swabs! I recently expanded my BSB by adding two hull sections and a third mast. It is now capable of holding eight cannons. Does this particular configuration fall into a definable ship category. I'd like to be able to describe it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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