HMS Victory

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I have only been baffled by my attempts to understand how the Chinese scripts work, but I had thought that the Korean script, although perhaps derived from Chinese, actually works as an alphabet-cum-syllabary and is therefore phonetic. Although I have a granddaughter currently in Korea studying Korean, I admit to knowing almost nothing about the subject but wonder how the Chinese/Korean linguistic exchanges work if this is the case.

You are right; both Korea and Japan use a phonetic script but they both use the Chinese system of writing as an alternative.

 

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I didnt know Victory had so much work done to her
Next time I visit I will look closely at the planking
I was not allowed in the bilge but have heard some people are
Is that true

 

[RunAgroundHard]

During the refurbishment of my boat, a boat builder in Scotland did a lot of the interior joinery. He builds many wooden boats and refurbished one of the Fifers that sails under a trust, can't remember the boat name, but I digress. We were talking about timber supplies and forests that were grown for ship building, in particular shaped trees. I thought that a lot of the tree limbed shapes, required to be felled for structural members, were naturally formed through growth; apparently not always. He described that many forests were planted specifically for future wooden ship building and tree limbs manipulated by foresters to grow in a certain style. He said nearly all these forests in Europe are long gone but there are still a few around.

 

[Never Grumble]

I didnt know Victory had so much work done to her
Next time I visit I will look closely at the planking
I was not allowed in the bilge but have heard some people are
Is that true

Having been round as a junior apprentice and as a dockyard draughtsman loads has been done. I was also part of a team who went onboard at monthly intervals to take sightings to monitor how it was sagging in the dock. I was lucky to be able to wander around all of the ship including all those areas inside and out that were out of bounds to the public.