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Old 05-14-11, 02:19 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by FIREWALL View Post
footnote: When all guns are fired in a broadside that ship moves laterialy sideways quite a distance in the water. WOW!!!
That's actually a myth. We had quite a discussion on the physics of that before. When the guns are fired, the ship moves sideways at most a fraction of a millimeter
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