This is an archived record of these forum posts and the search script is no longer active. However, you can search the old ship forum via this custom Google Search engine:

This may show a limited total number of results (100 hits) and supports only 100 searches per day. If you want to get more results, try using google directly. Go to google.com and include "site:http://warsailors.com/forum/archive/forum/" together with your search keywords. That will limit the search to the old archive of the forum.