Tweed's Blog (5)

Massive Russian sailing vessel highlight of Tall Ships festival in Halifax By Elizabeth Mcmillan , THE CANADIAN PRESS Saturday, July 18, 2009 HMS Bounty arrives in Halifax on Thursday July 16, 2009 to participate in Tall Ships Nova Scotia Festival 2009. Organizers are expecting up to 50 historic and unique vessels during the two week event. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan HALIFAX, N.S. -… Continue

To all who joined this Group and especially the ones who had to make room to join in yore lists, I heartily apologize to you. I was under some pressure to disband the thing as apparently it was a source of odd concerns or embarrassment to somebody up the ladder over there. Just so everybody knows, the only way I could disband it was to remove us all from the list and leave the thing to float off to wherever these things go in the end. I'd have asked Burnman for a Group-Be-Gone script but was a b… Continue

Found this in the Wiki regarding a big mammyjammer of a cannon:

The Great Turkish Bombard : is a siege gun dating from soon after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It is cast in bronze and was made in two parts: the barrel which holds the shot and the chamber which holds the charg… Continue

A pyrate is stumbling along the beach totally drunk when he comes upon a vicar baptizing people in the sea. The pyrate walks into the water and subsequently bumps into the vicar, who upon turning around and is almost overcome by the smell of rum. Whereupon he asks the drunk, 'Are you ready to find Jesus?' 'Yes I am' replies the besotted buccaneer, so the vicar grabs him and dunks him in the sea. He pulls him up and asks the drunk, 'Brother have ye found Jesus?' Gasping the pyrate replies, 'No,… Continue

Here's a thing I ran across this morning regarding the predecessors of the mythical Kanker Greenacre and all the rest of our SL shipwrights who is of direct descendancy from him. I figger the work was harder when these fellers built thar ships but mebbe took less time to get them built and sailing than the ones in SL. Amazin' what they could do with the tools available to em in those days. It's said they somehow managed to sail clear around Africa by 600 BC. I find this stuff to be astonishin' a… Continue