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To: Leaning Right
Hmmm ... maybe, but the old "Ships of the Line" had real guns on multiple decks. See HMS Victory:

She had (has?) real guns behind all those ports.

13 posted on 05/04/2015 10:38:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain
Beautiful ship, the HMS Victory. And she had better have real cannon behind all those gun ports. Because the way the British navy is cutting back, that old ship might be called back into active service.
16 posted on 05/04/2015 10:42:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: NorthMountain

Ships of the Line had guns on two or three decks. However, frigates and ship sloops had guns on only one deck, and what was called the gun deck had no guns mounted.


20 posted on 05/04/2015 10:58:40 AM PDT by centurion316
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