(urth) PF Review

Matthew King automatthew at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 08:24:47 PST 2007


On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Matthew Groves wrote:

> And all the
> guns and the importance of their size.  Chris and Capt. Burt "share
> the captain's cabin with a long nine."

You find the same emphasis on number and size of guns in  Patrick  
O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.  I think it is better to take a  
naval commander's obsession with gunpower at face value.  A sizeable  
stern-chaser is not the same thing as a sizeable-stern chaser.



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