:27:01
Salute.
:27:03
Hats off.
:27:07
What's all this about?
:27:12
- What's this?
- It's the phantom, sir.
:27:15
Excuse me. That's what the men call it.
It's the Acheron, sir.
:27:19
You see, Will here,
he seen her being built.
:27:21
In Boston, sir. During the peace.
But she's Yankee-built, sir.
:27:26
He was getting married, and his wife's
second cousin works in the yards,
:27:30
so Will here saw the ship
out of water.
:27:33
Sir, I saw there was something right strange
about her, so I asked Joe...
:27:38
So he described it to me
and I knocked you up a model, sir.
:27:41
- And this framing is accurate?
- Exactly accurate, sir.
:27:46
- Thank you, lads.
- Thank you, sir.
:27:48
Killick, an extra ration
of rum for these men.
:27:51
Thank you very much, sir.
:27:54
- Which I was saving for Salutin' Day.
- We'll drink wine.
:27:57
Oh, drink wine on Salutin' Day...
:27:59
Bluff above the water and sharp below.
:28:01
Gives the hull a finer entry and a long run
as she goes aft. That's why she's so fast.
:28:07
Heavier, but fast despite it.
:28:10
That's the future.
What a fascinating modern age we live in.
:28:15
Planking and framing like that
would make her hull 2ft thick. Solid oak.
:28:19
That's why we couldn't dent her. She's
probably capable of making 12 to 14 knots.
:28:25
Now we know. Thank God for Warley
and his wife's second cousin.
:28:28
She could be doing up to
280 miles a day.
:28:31
Even if we did catch up with her...
I mean, to take her...
:28:37
She's out of our class.
She's a 44-gun ship.
:28:42
She's still vulnerable at the stern,
like the rest of us.