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I was surfing the web and i came across this ship.. i would be a cool ship to build into Lego.. but if anyone has anybody has any info on this ship please post it. I believe this ship was used in a movie in Europe, its historically savy. heres the link Replica

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Captain Green Hair seems very near to being correct. Apparently, the ship is a replica called "Neptune" and was originally built for the 1986 movie "Pirates" directed by Roman Polanski. As of 2002, it has been converted into a public museum afloat in the harbor of Genoa, Italy.

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I feel a thread title change coming on... Was "Neptune" the ship's complete name or did it have a suffix?

That is the full name, allegedly. One can find some more photographs and information around the web given the said individual knows where to look. For example -

http://jhgraves.smugmug.com/gallery/2012838#103787966

Wasn't Neptune one of the ships that fought at Trafalgar? Anyways, its a nice ship.

A ship of the line named Neptune was one of the only five French vessels to survive the battle however the link above states this ship is a replica of a Spanish galleon to the contrary. There have also been at least nine vessels of the British Royal Navy to be named HMS Neptune. :-D

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Cool, what interesting looking ship! And thanks to our lad oo7 for finding a bucket of information for us to...ahem...sweep the decks (of our minds) with!

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I feel a thread title change coming on... Was "Neptune" the ship's complete name or did it have a suffix?

After searching on google sometime, it appeared this is indeed called the Neptune(I guess we already knew that... but okay).

That's the Black Pearl from POTC!!

Heheheh, funny you mentioned that, when I first saw it, it directly reminded me of the Flying Dutchman before getting cursed. :-P

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A ship of the line named Neptune was one of the only five French vessels to survive the battle however the link above states this ship is a replica of a Spanish galleon to the contrary. There have also been at least nine vessels of the British Royal Navy to be named HMS Neptune. :-D

Lolz! :-D

Anyways, the lamps at the back remind me of the Black Pearl - I've got a humongous poster of it up in my room.

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IMO, the ship is 17th century. My opinion based on the lateen sail, the bow and stern and general look of her. Definitely not a ship from trafalgar though. I know that for sure!! :-D :-P Such old rigging and shape, she'd've been blasted to bits!

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IMO, the ship is 17th century. My opinion based on the lateen sail, the bow and stern and general look of her. Definitely not a ship from trafalgar though. I know that for sure!! :-D :-P Such old rigging and shape, she'd've been blasted to bits!

Just what I think.

These older Galleon type ships (1600-1700?) weren't used in the big wars anymore.

And that's good, they were way too beautiful to be blown to bits!!

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