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    Toasted cheese.
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    Well, you didn't mark the package "Do not open at mailbox", did you? 🤪
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    There are three old versions of the solid-hull Essex. The ancient 5/64 kit, the old 1/8th kit which is completely solid, and the updated version of the latter, which has better, newer metal fittings and the hull is carved-out down to the gun-deck. The last one, is the one you want.
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    A very interesting video of a very beautiful ship.
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    Congress had not yet authorized the rank of 'Admiral', so 'Commodore was the highest honor the navy could legally bestow upon a senior officer. The highest seniority belonged to John Rogers, a man ironically with no notable naval victories to his name.
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    Scale wetness? It is a ship after all ...
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    I can't read it without subscribing to the Bangor Daily News. Funny how the story is blurred out, but the adds aren't ... 😆
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    Those similarities are very interesting, but Corne's East India Marine Hall ship painting does not fly a pennant, the mark of a naval vessel in commission, but what appears to be a big merchant house flag. It could be one of the big Salem East-indiamen like the Belisarius, America or Grand Turk. The (third) America was the former 28-gun French Corvette La Blonde.
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    The final one of the series. I wonder what happens...
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    110 years ago TODAY!
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    Fantastic story and graphics:
  31. uss frolick
    And unlike L'Unite, La Tourterelle (620 tons) fought like hell before she struck to a larger opponent. She even used a special oven to heat "hot-shot" in her defense, but it didn't help her. Lively was a rare, 18-pounder 32-gun frigate. Tourterelle's "as taken" profile with carvings is just too beautiful!
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    So your kit could be used to make La Tourterelle (the turtledove)?
  33. uss frolick
    The problem is that most of the builders' plans were drawn up before 1800, at a time when carronades were not overly-common on ships of the line. After that date, bulwarks became planked over, and it was easy to determine where the Carronades went, as their bulwark openings were larger than the nine-pounders. Check later, post-1800 drafts to see where the carronades actually went. After Trafalgar, it was about an even split between the two, and the long guns jumped a caliber to 12-pounders. Harold Underhill's commercial (3/16" scale) plans of the Armada-Class 74's, circa 1806, show where the carronades usually went.

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