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Author Topic: Greatest ship of the line ( 1790-1815)  (Read 175 times)
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« on: February 29, 2012, 04:05:40 pm »
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What single ship is the most feared warship of these times:

Santisima Trinidad  140 gun

Or

HMS Victory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_ship_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_la_Sant%C3%ADsima_Trinidad
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 07:26:45 pm »
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HMS Victory. it had the superb English gunners and an outstanding reputation. not to mention one of the greatest admirals ever, Horatio Nelson
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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 07:50:08 pm »
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my god man how far back are we going to go with these ship-offs? Seriously what's next are we going to have a thread comparing the Bireme with the Trireme?
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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 08:11:51 pm »
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Quote from: Clyde85 on March 02, 2012, 07:50:08 pm
my god man how far back are we going to go with these ship-offs? Seriously what's next are we going to have a thread comparing the Bireme with the Trireme?

Bah!  Give me a quinquereme any day of the week!   grin
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 08:40:26 pm »
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The Victory.  British gunners were trained to shoot 2 shots for every 1 shot the enemy could.  That's pretty much doubling your firepower.
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2012, 09:08:46 pm »
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Yea British sailors are the best of that age.

Perhaps only French had good crews.

Spain had some of the worst.

In this comparison you really got to qualify the crew, since everything was so low tech.

The French had some 130 gun ships...HMS Orient?
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2012, 08:16:39 am »
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Quote from: Red Harvest on March 02, 2012, 08:11:51 pm
Bah!  Give me a quinquereme any day of the week!   grin
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