Monday, August 3, 2009

AMERICAS SHIP TYPES: FRIGATE


SPD Frigate
18 Cannons
50 HP (21 Armor, 29 Structure)

AMERICAS SHIP TYPES: CORSAIR XEBEC


The Corsair xebec: a fast, sleek killer, the mere sight of which struck fear into the hearts of Mediterranean merchants.

SPD Corsair Xebec
12 Cannons
23 HP (8 Armor, 15 Structure)
The closest into the wind you can sail in this ship is 36 degrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xebec

Sunday, August 2, 2009

AMERICAS MAP


A. Battlements
B. Tavern
C. Governor's Palace
D. Fort
E. Town Square

JABBERWOCK MAP


This is a map of the Jabberwock region. The red X that's in the lower left hand corner of the map marks the spot of the Jabberwock pirate headquarters. In the lower right hand is East Windies the home port of our allies the Portuguese. We will rez our ships at this location. I have put in some representations of our ships rezzed and ready to invade in blue.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/east%20windies////

CONTINENTAL NAVY FLAG





In the autumn of 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued, in a set of fleet signals, an instruction directing his vessels to fly a "striped" jack and ensign. The exact design of these flags is unknown. The ensign was likely to have been the Grand Union Flag, and the jack a simplified version of the ensign: a field of 13 horizontal red and white stripes. However, the jack has traditionally been depicted as consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto "Dont Tread on Me"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Navy_Jack

CONTINENTAL PRIVATEER FLAG





One of the examples given in the book of an American revolutionary flag with stripes other than red and white is that of an unidentified American privateer, which "sported a black and yellow striped ensign. While at Martinique in 1776 the brig Reprisal flew a similar flag of yellow and white."

Saturday, August 1, 2009

AMERICAS SHIP TYPES: GUNBOAT


SPD Gunboat
1 Cannon
7 HP (4 Armor, 3 Structure)
Rowable or sailable
The closest into the wind you can sail in this ship is 40 degrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat