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Old 2nd May 2006, 12:44
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Originally Posted by SASless
Did not the Chinese say something about a photograph being worth a thousand words.
If she is sailing under canvas and putting out smoke from the gundeck...Lads....she is a warship.
The only thing missing is the chainshot and ball in the air.

Of course she's a warship. Just not an active one, in the sense of being used for that particular purpose. Of course, you could use the same logic to determine that a Harvard fitted with "cannon" and emitting gun smoke is a ground attack fighter....
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