[Original] First Rate Hull Section

[Keith]

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As you can see its really a painting of the hull section. Little other is known

 

[Commodore John Paul Jones]

This looks a bit like a third rate, 1680s or 90s.

 

[Sargon]

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HMS Barfleur, 98 guns sluggs it out with Ville De Paris, 110 guns.



Ville de Paris foudering in the middle of the Northern Atlantic after capture by Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes.

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