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Flynn s behind him with a scowl to see if Matt had been able to keep up Matt's little barge was still there surprisingly

Flynn shook his head in consternation as to Matt's specific choice of the little ship versus the larger one What ht mind would pass up this ship with all its canons for that little pea shooter back there with just two canons?

So what if the two canons were ht like this firepoas the only thing that unboat the USS Nathanael, after the Revolutionary war hero Nathaniel Hale Flynn rolled his eyes at the thought of that injustice

Na of bad taste, but in Flynn's mind every ship was a 'she' He'd naood ship and Polly had been a good wo Treat a ship well like you would a woman and you'd be rewarded Treat herwith her

Flynn saw a flurry of activity upon the five re Whalers that were in port, as someone on board noticed the Polly and the USS Nathaniel stea into the harbor They looked like ants in their activity as they were driven to their tasks by the bellowing roars of giants little better than overstuffed cockroaches

"Well, cockroaches and assorted verlee

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Ji the distance and the trajectory needed They were all lined up

A harpoon shot out from one of the mounted launchers on one of the Whalers The harpoon dinked off the side of the heavy iron plated ship and everyone within the gun bay chuckled

"Stand at the ready!" Jiiven

"Fire!!!" Jiunpowder sun bay

The ts of canons leaped backward in their traces even as their gun creent back to work in the process of reloading theun creeren't as polished or as quick as their counterparts in the distant pastthe job done

The abembers was shoved down the cannon barrels with a hot hiss of sound as water cae was rammed down it followed by a cannonball tapped into place, even as a new fuse was stuck into the breach