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Re: Ship Class Nomenclature

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:37:21 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship Class Nomenclature


> Reading Schott's Original Miscellany, I came across Wine Bottle
Sizes, and thought that they would make a good series for naming
classes, they are from smallest to largest:

Or gun sizes for early cannons -- depending on your source, something
like:
Robinet
Falconet
Falcon
Minion
Saker
Drake
Demi-Culverin
Culverin
Demi-Cannon
Cannon
Cannon Royal

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