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Offline b. snipes

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British broadside, fire as you bear.
« on: January 29, 2010, 06:15:02 PM »
I appologize if this is old news but this is a great video of a famous British ship at dock side letting loose with all possible firepower. A wonderful use of powder. beech



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WdU3Zkeig


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Re: British broadside, fire as you bear.
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 06:25:36 PM »
Interesting display of pyrotechnics, but some did not go off or went off after the cannon past them fired,

I think the Victory's crew being disciplined old salts would have been able to do a rolling broadside better

then the computer controlled one we just witnessed.

Some thing to note the lower deck gun ports are all closed I am guessing the Victory no longer sports

even replica's of the 32 pndrs. on that deck.
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Re: British broadside, fire as you bear.
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 07:07:10 PM »
Also looks like charges being set off at or slightly below ground level to increase the amount of smoke.
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Re: British broadside, fire as you bear.
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2010, 03:17:11 AM »
none of the detail matters...............damn good reminder of why you fell in love with cannons in the first place.............keep posting snipey..............can't see this kinda stuff often enough.........thank you.
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