ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Question. Would a frigate like JAs Surprise been much smaller than that?
Somewhat. HMS Surprise was a small frigate , a 32 I belive (forgive me, it's been at least 10 years since I've read the books). Have you seen Constitution(a 44) in Boston or Constellation(a 20 gun sloop of war) in Baltimore? Length wise she'd be between the two, but in weight and displacement closer to Constellation . Before they made the movie , the ship they used used to be HMS Rose and was homeported in Conneticut.
28. Havent made it to Baltimore yet. All and all, she would have been a rather sizable ship, I take it.
As a 28 she was barely a frigate. There were sloops that were rated 24. USS Ranger (John Paul Jones 2nd command) for one. I would say that she would be considerably smaller than either ship.




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