Mustering The Company
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- 02. Post Captain
- 03. HMS Surprise
- 04. The Mauritius Command
- 05. Desolation Island
- 06. The Fortune of War
- 08. The Ionian Mission
- 09. Treason’s Harbour
- 10. The Far Side of the World
- 11. The Reverse of the Medal
- 12. The Letter of Marque
- 13. The Thirteen Gun Salute
- 14. The Nutmeg of Consolation
- 15. The Truelove/Clarissa Oakes
- 16. The Wine-Dark Sea
- 17. The Commodore
- 18. The Yellow Admiral
- 21. The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
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Anatomy of a Man-of-War in Aubrey’s Royal Navy
Most if not every edition of every novel in our beloved series has a useful little diagram of a typical British man-of-war somewhere in the front or back. However, I thought it might be useful to have an online reference as well. In a way this doubles as a vocab list because it includes a [...] -
An Introduction to Ship Types During the Age of Sail
You can mouse over terms in red for further clarification… Cool, huh? There were many different types of ships during the Age of Sail, and all were defined based on their size, the number of masts they had, the shape of their hull and their rigging (the size and shape of sails arranged on however [...]