How would you stop them from 'starting families' regardless of
marriage?  And then if they did pop out several puppies, would the
Inseminator (I'll be back)
be legally denied the right to marry the mother?
  Or do we just move the age of consent to 25 and ignore the law anyways
(as they do now).  (who cares, I'm way past 25, I got mine ;)

enquiring minds wanna know...

Many captured ships were taken into the RN, though it may be assumed
that ceteris paribus the poorest enemy ships are most likely to
be captured

"Prof. Vincent Brannigan" <v...@umail.umd.edu> wrote:

and stricken and broken up in 1802. Since the Battle of the Saints was

fought in 1782, she obviously was not present. I suspect she was one    
of the ships captured when French Royalists opened Toulon dockyard

to Hood and the Royal Navy in August 1793.                                      
I vaguely recall that the whole affair did not go well for the Royal
Navy - they were chased out by a a force that included a  young
arrtillery officer named Napoleon Bonaparte, failed to destroy
the dockyard, and the prizes taken were either to weak or too rotten
to be of much value. "Commerce de Marseille" may have been one
of them. Certainly being scrapped at age 14 - not even used as a
prison or accomodation hulk - points that way.
As a further note, this might well have been a constructional, not
design, problem. A ship with great lines can still be useless if built
with unseasoned timber.

Until now, building a ship is a very hard work : two similar designed ships could
be very differents at sea.

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ROGER A EUSTIS (RO...@aaee.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Ref a thread somewhile back,thought some of the Deep Diving Denizens
: might be intrigued by the following:-},

: -----------------------------------ends-------------------------

: There y'go. Any guesses what they'll haul up ?

Well

How about 20 or 30 five gallon cans of paint, or 15 six foot wide rolls
of linoleum, or several breather valves, or 40 or 50 spanner wrenches,
or many cans of welding rods, or a few hunderd feet of wire rope, or
large pieces of deck grates, or the division officers hat, or empty
beer bottles, or many boxes of deck tiles, or the XO's mattress, or?

p.s. If they find any of these things I know nothing.

Oh yeah, I was four . . .