![]() However, this cannot be an insoluble problem as the Byzantines stored the ingredients for Greek Fire on their galleys for nearly a thousand years without a major catastrophe. A MAJOR concern is safely manufacturing and storing these compounds until used. So, this being considered, using Napalm, thermite, white phosphorus, and other incendiary compounds against them is feasible. ship combat–no one was ever foolish enough to fire up a furnace to heat shot on a wooden ship in the middle of a battle.) (Never say “never”, someone will come up with the appropriate obscure reference! But, if it was ever done, it was vanishingly rare!) ![]() This is why “red hot shot” was invented and used against them from shore based forts. They are composed of wood (dried, with pitch soaked rope used as caulking) with canvas sails & tarred rope stays (the mobile rope rigging was not tarred but still flammable). ![]() Wooden ships were (& are) the some of the biggest firetraps ever invented. The Kursk was sunk by a fire in the torpedo room, for an example. Modern ships are not exempt either, and in submarines it can be really catastrophic. Wooden sailing ships were extremely vulnerable to fire. ![]() Kids, DO NOT try this at home!!! It can & probably WILL hurt you… Wesley Cleveland, Neil Frandsen, Kerryn Offord Flammability of Wooden Ships and the use of Incindiaries against Them:īrian Allen, Eric Anderson (editor – blame me!), William Anderson, Tom Blanton, ![]()
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