"Rigged ship Christmas ornaments" Topic

Actually, and for what it may be worth, that's not a bad little impression of a China tea clipper,

The Flying Cloud was a Yankee ship, five hundred tons or more,
She could outsail any clipper ship hailing out of Baltimore,
With her canvas white as the driven snow and on it there's no specks,
And forty men and fourteen guns she carried below her decks.

It certainly looks good enough to me for gaming. I don't know where to find more. Good luck Queen Catherine!

Ted

The Flying Cloud was a Yankee ship, five hundred tons or more,
She could outsail any clipper ship hailing out of Baltimore,
With her canvas white as the driven snow and on it there's no specks,
And forty men and fourteen guns she carried below her decks.

The Sputum from her bows was pure and clean and white
Though her name was made in trade she was all ready for a fight
If a Frenchmans seamen ever tried to mount upon her poop
She would see them off with a tidy speed and a 14 gun salute.

From the quivering of her stunsails to the proud upstanding staff
She glowed from stem to stern, her cloth billowed round her gaff
Welcomed in every harbor as she cast away her shrouds
Men would cheer and raise a beer at the sight of the flying cloud

She sailed the whole world over selling off her wares for cheap
And when balls pounded her stern her timbers n'ere made a squeak
But she ripped away her topsails and challenged all to do their best
her name was Ernie…..and….she drove the…..fastest milkcart in the…West??

Sorry. I completely misread the whole post

My first thought was how, in the Navy we rigged ships with colored lights running from the bow and stern to the masts during Christmas. Being the electrical officer, I thought it was a tremendous PITA. Pretty though.