Superior British cannon ball, folded a thousand times, imbued with the warrior spirits of the cannonballers, can penetrate 10ft thick inferior American steel from 300 leagues away
While you were partying I studied The Ball
While you were having premarital sex I mastered the Grape Shot
Well yes, but frigates aren’t ships of the line, the sailboat would get hit by multiple over the horizon attacks without knowing they are in the same timezone. As I said on other places if you use your gun as a bat you’d lose a swordfight.
The best use case of course would be using the ships as giant cannonballs and use a massive racket to shoot them at the enemy
Okay but frigates are usually 6th or 5th rate ship of the line tho.
LCS: “Do you have any idea how much damage your ship would do to ours, if we were to ram into you?”
Frigate: “No. How much?”
LCS: “Absolutely none.”
(With apologies to Douglas Adams.)
So why did the new one run away as fast as it could? Checkmate defense ministers
it’s only hope was to get close enough to board and commandeer the other vessel by armed melee combat like ye old shellbacks like. yarrrrr.
New ship just sits upwind from the tall ship and watches it try to tac it’s way against the wind to the battle.
“Are you Spanish ? Oui kill Spanish for the king of the French”
Average sports GOAT debate
Actually I think if the Frigate could get withing its optimal combat range, it might have a chance. If they have a full crew on the sails, it should be fairly agile.
We did a gun shoot on a wooden built raft with .50 cals and M16s. It was harder than expected to sink the raft. I would say a cannon ball would do massive damage but today’s ships can move quicker. So ultimately the newer ships would more than likely win.
The wood floats, you don’t need to worry about hull integrity of a raft since it doesn’t displace water.
Use the .50 cal on an old ship’s water line and that sucker will be listing in no time.
Use it on the canon deck and there won’t be any cannoneers left.
Edit: I am now imagining what a helo, with a GAU-2, would do to one of those old ships.
(A helo with a GAU-21 can technically be part of the ship’s compliment. Though I can’t recall if an H-60S is compatible to land, stay on board since they have the tail wheel further back and no RAST to get them in the hangar.)
