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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge wreck reveals secrets of the real Pirate of the Caribbean
telegraph.co.uk ^
| May 28 2011
| Jasper Copping
Posted on 05/28/2011 2:49:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I refrained from making the last two paragraphs the excerpt, because I didn't want to be a spoiler.
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
05/28/2011 3:00:13 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Obama can't see something pure like the truth without wanting to abort it.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
The lead archeologist is saying some strange things.
He talks about ordinary chain shot as if it was a unique improvised weapon that only this pirate used. Well chain/bar shot was in common use by navies to take down rigging.
It’s not to “terrorize” an enemy, its to win by crippling the opponent ability to manuever.
And langrage is just a slight change to cannister/grape shot, something also widely used by navies and not unique to pirate.
So they found ball, grape and chain shot, just like you would find on any warship of the time.
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posted on
05/28/2011 3:44:08 AM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: Berlin_Freeper
“During the expedition, which ends this week, the team are also fixing experimental zinc anodes to any large metal items they are not yet able to recover, including cannons.
The devices will conserve the artefacts before they can be brought to the surface by slowing, and possibly even reversing, the process of corrosion.”
Of all the fantastic ways in which stories of piracy on the high seas stretch the imagination, this bit about the “corrosion-reversing anode” takes the cake!
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posted on
05/28/2011 3:44:40 AM PDT
by
golux
To: Berlin_Freeper
appears they got the
anchor yesterday..
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posted on
05/28/2011 3:55:50 AM PDT
by
sternup
To: golux
I thought of OBL when I read this:
...and his skull was later used as a punch bowl.
Those were the days when men were men.
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posted on
05/28/2011 4:05:28 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Obama can't see something pure like the truth without wanting to abort it.)
To: Mount Athos
That lead archeologist needs to watch some old Errol Flynn movies.
To: Berlin_Freeper
The examination of this wreck has been going on for years. I have seen some the arifacts at the Maritime Museum in Beaufort, NC (my Mother lives near there). Some of them are striking.
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posted on
05/28/2011 4:43:18 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)
To: golux
Experimental zinc anodes? These so called scientists must have majored in women's and black studies... they certainly do not know maritime or marine history.
LLS
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posted on
05/28/2011 4:48:15 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
To: LibLieSlayer
yeah no kidding, sacrificial anodes have been in use since pretty much the birth of iron ships.
To: LibLieSlayer
It does appear to be a sound principle, except for that reversing the corrosion part. Oil rigs use aluminum blocks and ships place zinc on their hulls for the same protection. Of course there is a risk of contamination of the soil around the site. Hello, EPA!
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posted on
05/28/2011 5:04:55 AM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
To: onedoug
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posted on
05/28/2011 5:06:05 AM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
To: LibLieSlayer
Just about every sailor knows about sacrificial zincs.
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posted on
05/28/2011 5:21:54 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
To: yawningotter
I don't know about that... When I watched Errol Flynn in that pirate movie that made him a star, I thought he looked like such a pansy I wondered how he ever made another movie.
Captain Blood was it?
I also don't like Tyrone Power. The movie version of Captain from Castile was a flop in my opinion because Tyrone was such a pansy. Ditto Prince of Foxes, by the same author, Samuel Shellabarger, both excellent books--though P of F was so badly done it should have been aborted.
Somebody should remake these movies in 21st century realism. Maybe the excavation of Queen Anne's Revenge will cast some light on what these people were like.
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posted on
05/28/2011 5:43:04 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(You can, in fact must, shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre. It just must be the truth. Jonah Goldberg)
To: yawningotter
I doubt he knows just who Errol Flynn was.
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posted on
05/28/2011 6:06:39 AM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: stylecouncilor
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posted on
05/28/2011 6:17:46 AM PDT
by
onedoug
(If)
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
IIRC, Errol Flynn was an @sskickin’ SOB who threw more real punches than he ever did on the screen.
Of course, he ultimately beat himself to death by age 50.
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posted on
05/28/2011 6:17:49 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("F### the ACLU!")
To: Mount Athos
Kick these ``archaeologists`` off the poop deck!
To: elcid1970
“.....Errol Flynn was an @sskickin SOB .....)
A toast to him for of his films as a sailor (made my desire to become a sailor) has now made me a veteran. He had it all didn't he, but as Aristotle said to a young Alexander, " A long life in obscurity or a short life on Glory? Can you have both? Semper Fi USA.
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posted on
05/28/2011 6:40:04 AM PDT
by
cameraeye
(A happy kufir!)
To: Jeff Vader
Truly... and treasure hunters have been using them since ships sank... I have seen cannon protected that way... and anchors... usually pieces that cannot be kept submerged until they are cleaned and preserved.
LLS
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posted on
05/28/2011 7:21:15 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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