Snow, Spit, Bar, Careen

December 18th, 2011 by admin

So in that snippet you sent Captain Johnson, or Defoe, or whoever, is saying that a “snow” type of ship was undergoing maintenance on a spit of a large sandbar and was thus easily captured by the pirates.

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  1. Steve Parkes:

    December 19th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    And now you’re ready to read Patrick O’Brian!