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To: Master Zinja

Interestingly, as late as the 1870s steam powered ships still sported full rigging with sales.


4 posted on 03/09/2014 5:43:53 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: LS
Interestingly, as late as the 1870s steam powered ships still sported full rigging with sales.

"Backup" using an earlier generation technology. Kind of like the early combination gas/ electric light fixtures.

5 posted on 03/09/2014 6:09:24 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: LS

And with all those “sales”, they still couldn’t get rid of their “sails”! :-)


7 posted on 03/09/2014 6:27:42 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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