http://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&feed=atom&target=MoletrouserWikiPOBia - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T14:20:02ZFrom WikiPOBiaMediaWiki 1.15.1http://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php/Talk:Patrick_O%27BrianTalk:Patrick O'Brian2010-02-19T22:54:33Z<p>Moletrouser: </p>
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<div>== References ==<br />
Oliver, don't forget you need to cite your source material. --[[User:LadyShelley|LadyShelley]] 01:54, 6 July 2007 (BST)<br />
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== POB Grave story ==<br />
Should the Admiral's story of finding O'Brian's burial site be merged into this main article somehow? --[[User:LadyShelley|LadyShelley]] 01:46, 3 July 2008 (BST)<br />
:Its not exactly encyclopedic, is it. I think that a link would be adequate. [[User:Aquinas|Aquinas]] 00:10, 11 July 2008 (BST)<br />
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== Lewes Grammar School ==<br />
"...to Lewes, Sussex, where he attended the local grammar-school for three years...." Would that be Lewes Old Grammar School? It is of interest to me because my brother went there. [[User:Moletrouser|Moletrouser]] 22:54, 19 February 2010 (UTC)</div>Moletrouserhttp://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php/RingleRingle2010-02-19T22:42:16Z<p>Moletrouser: The game had not started at the end of "The Wine Dark Sea" - indeed it must take place many days after the meeting of the Surprise and the Berenice</p>
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<div>The '''Ringle''' is a two masted [[schooner]], of the type known as a [[Baltimore clipper]]. [[Jack Aubrey]] won her from [[Heneage Dundas]] in a game of [[backgammon]] in the opening chapter of ''[[The Commodore (novel)|The Commodore]]''. Like others of her type, she is a very fast sailer and can point much further into the wind than a square-rigged ship. She is used by Aubrey as a tender to his 74-gun ship ''[[HMS Bellona]]'' in ''[[The Commodore (novel)|The Commodore]]'' and ''[[The Yellow Admiral (novel)|The Yellow Admiral]]''. The ''Ringle'' also appears in ''[[The Hundred Days]]'' and ''[[Blue at the Mizzen]]''.<br />
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The ''Ringle'' is named after Ken Ringle, a ''Washington Post'' journalist who sent a book about Baltimore clippers to [[Patrick O'Brian]] in 1992 just before he wrote the final chapters of ''The Wine-Dark Sea''. O'Brian was so grateful that he introduced the ''Ringle'' into the books and named it after the man who had introduced him to the type<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feed/a19768-2000jan8.htm Washington Post article on O'Brian]</ref>.<br />
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