SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!

>>64911149
Designed by public input.

>I know better than those idiot "experts" in the Admiralty! This ship is geni-WHARRGARBL

>>64911149
>750 tons heavier than designed
>from 8ft of freeboard to 6'6"
>center of gravity moves up by 10 inches
>recoil causes 20° list
Absolutely no problems here.

>>64911149
Oh Captain my Capt-blurglubglubglub

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>>64911149
oh well, could be worse.

>>64911486
Eh, I'll take being immortalized in a creepy story over drowining in an ironclad designed by retards for retards.

>>64911434
>recoil causes 20° list

With the ship estimated to capsize at 21°.

>>64911155
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred White Whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

>>64911434
>>64911754
Just fire both cannons at the same time at opposite directions

>>64911149
So I'm a modern landlubber in an office chair but I can see instantly that there is a problem with the boat, a wave might hit it.
I've heard a big wave is a chance in a million at sea, but if there are a lot of waves on the ocean it must add to a certainty over the service life.
How did they convince 500 seafaring men who know infinitely better than me to get on the HMS Captain and drown? Impressment? Triple rum ration?

>>64911791
Promote this man to Commodore!

have they found the wreck yet

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>>64911149
Here's your new vessel. Hang on to your hats.