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  1.    hollowneck reacted to a post in a topic: shiny rope
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    I've had that book for decades and I love it. Sadly, the zebra muscles are slowly covering the wrecks. (Thank you foreign tankers dumping your Asian-water-ballast.) For that reason, they should be raised and preserved a la Vasa. Can you image the clothing, possessions and paperwork still preserved in the officers sea-chests? Thank you for the review.
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    I love a good "what if"!
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    Come on, Chris, just add another deck to the Indy, and no-one will be the wiser ... Easy-Peasy, lemon squeezy! 😇 (The preceding was a joke.)
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    The French method was fine for French purposes at the time, i.e., dashing quickly out of Brest and racing to Martinique or La Reunion, etc., with cargo, and then speeding home. The British needed stronger vessels, as they were constantly at sea on blockade duty, often not dropping anchor for months at a time. Without knees, the unaltered ex-French ships would work themselves to pieces on blockade.
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    To save weight, the French did not use lodging knees, but instead dove-tailed the beam ends into larger than normal clamps. As soon as the captured ship went into the dockyard for a major repair, the British shipwrights would have added them with smaller clamps. L'Unite was taken without a fight, so there was no need for an upper-works rebuilding, unless she was already rotten. Will there be a main-deck, long-gun option, preferably with French pattern 8-pounders, for us Tourterelle-loving Francophiles?
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    Toasted cheese.
  26. uss frolick
    Well, you didn't mark the package "Do not open at mailbox", did you? 🤪
  27. uss frolick
    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.
  28. uss frolick
    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.
  30. uss frolick
    Scale wetness? It is a ship after all ...
  31. uss frolick
    I can't read it without subscribing to the Bangor Daily News. Funny how the story is blurred out, but the adds aren't ... 😆
  32. uss frolick
    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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