(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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