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  • Desolation Island (novel)
    * Larkin -- [[Sailing master|Master]] (Mate: James Stokes)
    3 KB (404 words) - 02:36, 8 August 2009
  • The Surgeon's Mate (novel)
    * Grimmond -- [[Sailing master|Master]] (Mate: James Stokes)
    667 B (85 words) - 17:52, 31 January 2009
  • Patrick O'Brian
    …isited New York before the war, possibly travelling there on board a large sailing-vessel, the barque ''Fantôme II''. At about the same time he began work … …ork on the same theme, and the result was ''[[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]'', published in 1969. The book won O'Brian many plaudits …
    15 KB (2453 words) - 14:40, 25 September 2020
  • The Unknown Shore
    …an ([[lieutenant]]), [John] Bulkeley ([[gunner]]), Clerk ([[Sailing master|master]]), Cummins ([[carpenter]]), Hamilton ([[Royal Marines|Marine]] lieutenant…
    10 KB (1542 words) - 09:33, 24 November 2010
  • Jack Aubrey
    …tenant]] in [[Port Mahon]], [[Minorca]], in [[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]. …el)|The Surgeon's Mate]]'' he is said to have been 'a seventeen-year-old [[master's mate]]' on board ''HMS Resolution'' at the time of an action near [[Bres…
    21 KB (3045 words) - 15:57, 30 December 2013
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    '''Master and Commander:The Far Side of the World''' was the first, and to date only… '''Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World''' takes lines and incidents from…
    7 KB (1175 words) - 21:26, 17 April 2008
  • Royal Navy ranks
    |align="center" |[[Master and Commander (rank)|Master and Commander]] |A Master and Commander was the captain of an unrated ship, usually a [[sloop]] or […
    6 KB (1003 words) - 19:35, 4 May 2008
  • Summary for The Far Side of the World
    …s Pullings|Pullings]] to sail as [[volunteer]] - Allen as [[Sailing master|master]] - Horner as [[gunner]] with pretty wife - crew made up with mutineers an…
    7 KB (1029 words) - 05:44, 16 January 2009
  • Cutter
    …e commanded by a [[lieutenant]]. This pattern was developed from a swift-sailing model used by traders and smugglers off the coast of Norfolk in eastern [[… …ely in through the warm darkness . . . ' (''[[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]'', chap. 7)
    1 KB (224 words) - 14:38, 1 February 2009
  • Chains
    …ins that were to prevent the yards falling in action.' O'Brian, Patrick. ''Master and Commander''. (c) 1969 by Patrick O'Brian. J. B. Lippincott Company, Ph… [[Category:Parts of a sailing vessel]]
    2 KB (382 words) - 15:24, 31 October 2009
  • Yard
    …s and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging, Expressly Adapted for Sailing Ships''. Dover edition of 1990, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Stre… …part, to three at the yard-arms, the extremities."<ref>O'Brian, Patrick. ''Master and Commander''. (c) 1969 by Patrick O'Brian. J. B. Lippincott Company, Ph…
    2 KB (304 words) - 15:11, 31 October 2009
  • Transcription for 21
    presently he formed the whole South African squadron into the sailing Truly, once they had sunk the land it was the purest sailing:
    17 KB (3054 words) - 03:01, 12 November 2007
  • Master and Commander (rank)
    A '''Master and Commander''' was a [[commission|commissioned]] officer ranking above a… …anted master as well as the commander. In recognition of this, the words 'Master and' were officially deleted from the designation of the rank in 1794, alt…
    2 KB (333 words) - 02:31, 13 April 2008
  • Thomas Pullings
    …[[Jack Aubrey]]’s [[follower]]s. Aubrey first encountered Pullings as a master’s mate aboard ''[[HMS Sophie]]'' in 1800. Although Pullings had passed … …HMS Surprise'' again. In that later capacity, Pullings won promotion to [[Master and Commander (rank)|Commander]] as a result of the ''Surprise’s'' defea…
    5 KB (713 words) - 01:42, 7 August 2009
  • M. Harte
    {{spoiler|Master and Commander, Post Captain, The Ionian Mission and Treason's Harbour}} He first appears in [[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]] as the Port Captain, or senior Royal Navy Captain at Port …
    2 KB (381 words) - 09:25, 24 November 2010
  • Horatio Nelson
    … despatched him into the Mediterranean to seek out the French fleet. After sailing the length of the Mediterranean and back to naples searching for the Frenc… … Battle of the Nile before the opening of ''[[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]''. He also served in other battles where Nelson was presen…
    7 KB (1202 words) - 22:38, 30 January 2009
  • Saturn
    The canon opens in ''[[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]'' in the pillared octagonal room in [[Port Mahon]] in whic… …hannon|Shanon]]. Aubrey and Maturin have argued and Aubrey concentrates on sailing. Aubrey looks back. "Boston was waking up - lights showing the shape of th…
    8 KB (1285 words) - 09:31, 24 November 2010
  • Sloop
    … rank of the officer who commanded her. When a vessel is commanded by a [[Master and Commander (rank)|Commander]], she is rated as a sloop. If the same ve… In modern usage the term sloop refers to a sailing vessel with a single mast, foresail and jib.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w…
    1 KB (172 words) - 14:41, 1 February 2009
  • Cunt splice
    …r bow-chaser that Aubrey mounts in HMS ''Sophie''.<ref>O'Brian, Patrick. ''Master and Commander''. (c) 1969 by Patrick O'Brian. J. B. Lippincott Company, Ph… [[Category:Parts of a sailing vessel]]
    2 KB (265 words) - 17:54, 14 October 2016
  • Bunt
    …jack|cro'jack]] than a main yard" as Aubrey put it<ref>O'Brian, Patrick. ''Master and Commander''. (c) 1969 by Patrick O'Brian. J. B. Lippincott Company, Ph… [[Category:Parts of a sailing vessel]]
    839 B (137 words) - 09:29, 24 November 2010

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