At 02:38 AM 7/25/99 -0700, Matt Broze wrote: >I have just looked at a lot of warship pictures on the web and they range is >from reverse rake on some early 1900's battleships to near 45 degrees of All the negative rake on the turn of the last century battleships was because the bows were actually rams. The designers in those days weren't all that confident about gunfire against armor, and designed the potential for a ramming battle into the ships. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jul 25 1999 - 08:30:21 PDT
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