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OK. So there was a separate Scottish ship. Or was there?
The way the story was written it suggested that both the Scottish ship and the English ship were built at the same time; the schoolgirl says something like, "The Scots wanted a ship of their own" to Pond whilst she's trying to pick the padlock.
The star whale was the last of its kind. So; how was the Scottish ship powered? It seemed to me, from the way the story was presented, that the English used the star whale as a 'last resort' solution which suggests either lack of technology or lack of time. Constraints that would also apply to any
hypothetical Scottish ship.
I don't think there ever was a separate Scottish ship. I reckon those untrustworthy sassenachs either ditched the Scots or fed them to the star whale.
Yet another reason that Scotland should declare independence
now.
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