a2
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Post by a2 on Aug 25, 2006 18:22:22 GMT -5
Please take and post as many pics of that ol gal as you can.....I've always wanted to see it, and am bored with the pics on her website.
Think they would let you take it out for a spin in the bay?
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Post by joeboy on Aug 27, 2006 12:41:20 GMT -5
wow look at the rigging on those monsters. i wonder how many miles of rope that is. pretty amazing.
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Post by David Luckenbach on Aug 28, 2006 3:45:42 GMT -5
I have a couple hundred pics of Victory, will post a bunch when we return to the states this week.
David
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Post by houston on Mar 17, 2007 8:37:35 GMT -5
These old wooden ships are amazing, they used oak and steam to shape the hull. In North Carolina, graveyard of the Atlantic, you can see these old hulls sticking out of the sand....hull thickness are at least two feet thick. In America they used live oak on the outer hull.....The United States built six of these war ships, the first government contracts. They were all the same design. "The Constitution was to be built in Boston, the Constellation, in Blatimore, New York got the President; Norfolk, Virginia, the Chesapeake; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the Dongess. Joshua Humphreys himself was chosen to build the United States in Philadelphia." This was taken from an article "Six Ships that Shook the World." by Roger Archibald
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