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Last time we left Thomas Pound and Thomas Hawkins, Languisheen in the brand new old stone jail in Boston.

Both had just been found guilty of piracy and officially dubbed enemies of the whole human race.

Their crew got off the hook with a fine and some forced military service, but not those two. They had only a gallows to look forward to. Now, I don't know that King William the third of England was a particularly poetic man, that he paid attention to things like symbolism and metaphor, nor do I think he was paying too much attention to this little piratical flare up in New England.

However, he did take one action that does strike me as symbolic.

When the Royal Navy loses a ship, they tend to replace her, not just build another ship to put in the lost vessel's place, but a real

replacement, the same size and classification, the same number of guns, and even the same name.

They didn't always do this with tiny sloops or with the flagship ships of the line.

They either let them fall away into obscurity or gave them a large retirement ceremony.

But your frigates and men of war and even lesser ships of the line, they were placed In part it's symbolic. Our naval might shall never be

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