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  • HMS Leopard (ship)
    '''HMS Leopard''' was a 50-gun ship involved in a serious peacetime incident with the [[USN Chesapeake|''USN C… …eing too small to stand in the line of battle and unsuitable as a cruising ship.
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  • Punishment aboard ship
    There were a number of traditional '''punishments aboard ship''' which could be administered by the captain under [[Articles of War#Arti… …der was dragged under the hull. This was usually done from one side of the ship to the other and could be repeated one or more times. It was not usually f…
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  • HMS Surprise (ship)
    '''''HMS Surprise''''', a [[frigate]] of the [[rate|sixth rate]], is the ship most closely associated with [[Jack Aubrey]] from the third book of the Ca… … a somewhat artificial reckoning to distinguish her from an unrated [[post ship]] on the one hand (such vessels might carry up to 26 guns) and from a 32-g…
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  • Lexicon:Hospital ship
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">hospital ship</td> <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">A ship serving as a hospital for the Fleet. The [[Lexicon:Physician of the Fleet|…
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  • Lexicon:Ship's barber
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">ship's barber</td>
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  • Lexicon:Ship's butcher
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">ship's butcher</td>
    2 KB (218 words) - 17:03, 31 January 2009
  • Ship's Time
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  • WikiPOBia:Rules and guidelines
    *Ship building and design …brey can be compared and contrasted; ''[[The Rose]]'' as ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' can be an article, too. However, text such as "The movie was…
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  • WikiPOBia:Style Manual
    *When noting ship names, the ship should be enclosed in the italics mark up: <nowiki>''HMS Shipname''</nowik… *For inanimate objects, use British; ''HMS Surprise'' is a British ship.
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  • WikiPOBia:Naming conventions
    …Harte, but a page about ship's boats should be called Ship's boats and not Ship's Boats. **(ship) – for disambiguating ship names
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  • Summary for Master and Commander
    …te his promotion. Going aboard his new command he finds that he requires a ship's surgeon and so invites Maturin to sail with him in that capacity. Aubrey has a busy time improving the ship's rig and guns and learning the capabilities of his new command and crew, …
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  • HMS Surprise
    * [[HMS Surprise (ship)]]
    66 B (7 words) - 02:16, 23 June 2007
  • The Truelove
    *[[The Truelove (ship)]]
    123 B (16 words) - 01:50, 21 June 2007
  • Nutmeg of Consolation
    * [[Nutmeg of Consolation (ship)]]
    88 B (10 words) - 16:34, 17 January 2009
  • 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
    *'''[[Ringle]]''' [[Schooner]] acting as tender to ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' …-pounders; this may be a deliberate change, based on the fact that an old ship could be seriously damaged by the recoil of very heavy firing. See Bruce…
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  • Desolation Island (novel)
    …a loved one, except in the sense that the assignment to the [[HMS Leopard (ship)|Leopard]] offers opportunities to escape from recent trials of life.
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  • The Fortune of War
    ==Officers on [[HMS Leopard (ship)|HMS Leopard]]==
    620 B (81 words) - 18:07, 23 October 2009
  • HMS Surprise (novel)
    [[Richard Canning]]: A Jewish merchant and ship builder. He offers Jack a chance to captain one of his newest ships as a …
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  • The Letter of Marque (novel)
    …vities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the ''[[Surprise]]'' to command as a [[privateer]], more politely termed a…
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  • Master and Commander (novel)
    *'''Stephen Maturin''', Irish-Catalan physician, ship's surgeon
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  • Post Captain (novel)
    …nded, they escape from France and return to England. Aubrey pleads for any ship. After many tribulations and disagreements with Maturin and others, he is … *[[Stephen Maturin]] - ship's surgeon, friend to Jack and intelligence officer.
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  • The Mauritius Command
    A curious detail is that [[HMS Leopard (ship)|HMS Leopard]] (50) was briefly (April-May 1810) included in the squadron.…
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  • The Yellow Admiral (novel)
    …oss of his fortune, and the end of his naval career at the same time. His ship, ''[[HMS Bellona]]'', is part of the Brest blockade squadron commanded by…
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  • Blue at the Mizzen
    …ce movement under the guise of a hydrographical survey. ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' first returns to [[England]] for refitting and Jack receives… *'''Asp''' Former naval ship-sloop bought and overhauled by Lindsay. (The historical ''Asp'' (16), for…
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  • Patrick O'Brian
    …Brian; the unusual spelling of the surname seems to derive from that of a ship-owner in a Victorian insurance contract which he had transcribed from an u…
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  • The Unknown Shore
    …t the abuse of authority (p.101, in regard to Jack’s [[punishment aboard ship|mastheading]]). Jack Byron, for his part, has not yet developed [[Jack Au…
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  • Jack Aubrey
    Aubrey's name was first put into a ship's books when he was nine years old, though he did not actually go to sea u… …rk, First Edition: p. 220</ref> aboard ''HMS Resolution'', "a discontented ship on the Cape station",<ref>O’Brian, Patrick. ''Post Captain''. ©1972. J.…
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  • Category:Historical ships
    … the actual history as well as any fictional additions will be included in ship articles.
    258 B (39 words) - 22:52, 8 July 2007
  • User:Billy Ruffian
    …fian"''' was the sailors' corrupted pronunciation of '''Belerophon''', the ship aboard which [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] was held prior to his exile t…
    488 B (74 words) - 03:34, 21 June 2007
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    …ng fleet, even though ''Acheron'' is described as being a "faster, heavier ship." …isguises ''Surprise'' as a British whaler ''[[Syren]]'' to lure the French ship close enough to board and take her.
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  • Diana Villiers
    Jack, now engaged to Sophie, brings ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|HMS Surprise]]'' to [[Bombay]], where Stephen plans to meet Diana. She is… …n [[Louisa Wogan]], who is sentenced to be transported in ''[[HMS Leopard (ship)|HMS Leopard]]'' for that very crime.
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  • HMS Leopard (ship)
    '''HMS Leopard''' was a 50-gun ship involved in a serious peacetime incident with the [[USN Chesapeake|''USN C… …eing too small to stand in the line of battle and unsuitable as a cruising ship.
    3 KB (478 words) - 17:08, 15 March 2010
  • Category:Ships
    The following is a list of '''ship''' articles for vessels mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's works. These artic… To see articles on various types of ship, see [[:Category:Types of ship]]
    394 B (61 words) - 17:37, 27 September 2007
  • Articles of War
    …le penalty of death. However, the vast majority of the [[Punishment aboard ship|disciplinary measures]] administered on board naval ships fell under Artic… …y preserved, and the very originals shall by the commanding officer of the ship which shall take such prize, be sent entirely, and without fraud, to the […
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  • Grog
    …er [[Jack Aubrey]]'s command. It might be stopped as a [[Punishment aboard ship|punishment]] for lesser crimes or increased as a reward for services above… The recipe aboard [[HMS Surprise (ship)|HMS Surprise]] is described in Chapter 3 of '''[[The Far Side of the Worl…
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  • Sidney Smith
    …Sir Edward Pellew]]. Smith fitted the pattern and on one occasion took his ship almost into the port of [[Brest]] to observe the French fleet. … they attempted to leave harbour and the French were able to recapture the ship with Smith aboard. Instead of exchanging him as was the custom, Smith was …
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  • Master and Commander XXX
    *'''Stephen Maturin''', Irish-Catalan physician, ship's surgeon
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  • Surprise
    #REDIRECT [[HMS Surprise (ship)]]
    33 B (4 words) - 16:03, 5 June 2007
  • Shelmerston
    …evon,somewhere in the Torbay area. [[Jack Aubrey]] bases ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' there after she has been sold to [[Stephen Maturin]] to be o…
    822 B (124 words) - 22:53, 6 June 2007
  • Summary for Desolation Island
    …orical [[Royal Navy]] warship, although unlike in the preceding novels the ship and captain in ''Desolation Island'' do not follow a direct historical tem… …the Dutch ship-of-the-line [[Waakzaamheid]], until in heavy seas the enemy ship is sunk in a deadly duel. Third, after the Leopard's rudder is lost in a …
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  • Summary for The Commodore
    ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'', ''[[HMS Berenice]]'' and ''[[Ringle]]'' schooner arriving i…
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  • Summary for The Fortune of War
    ''[[HMS Leopard (ship)|Leopard]]'' docks in [[Pulo Batang]] - has discharged [[convicts]] at [[B… …[HMS Shannon|Shannon]]'' - dinner with Captain Broke - his handling of the ship and gunnery - better than Jack's.
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  • Summary for The Ionian Mission
    …e - firework powder aggravates hangover - Mitchell was [[Punishment aboard ship|flogged round fleet]], Jack expects same. Polonius - ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' joins squadron with post - [[William Babbington|Babbington]]…
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  • Summary for The Nutmeg of Consolation
    … [[Australia|Australian]] bigotry and ill-nature - Jack falls in love with ship and names her ''Nutmeg''. …rward to [[platypus]]es - ''Cornélie'' steals a march - ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' sighted with three consorts - chase in reverse - ''Cornélie…
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  • Summary for The Reverse of the Medal
    Bridgetown, [[Barbados]] - ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' with whaler in tow - Captain Goole blackguards [[Jack Aubrey…
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  • Summary for Blue at the Mizzen
    …hed hands reach the shore. His fears are justified when ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'', damaged in a collision, has to return to [[Gibraltar]] for … …e marriage to [[Christine Wood]]. The news quickly spreads throughout the ship.
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  • Edward Pellew
    …w is briefly mentioned as Lord Exmouth in ''[[The Hundred Days]]'' and his ship makes an important appearance in ''[[Post Captain (novel)|Post Captain]]''… …e Champlain, Pellew with his superior officers wounded managed to save his ship and was immediately promoted to command her. In the summer of 1777 Pellew,…
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  • Summary for Clarissa Oakes
    ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' in [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]], [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]] re… Seven men [[Punishment aboard ship|flogged]] - Clarissa tells Stephen she was often raped - for her, kindness…
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  • Desolation Island (place)
    …nd]]'' as a refuge where [[Jack Aubrey]] manages to bring ''[[HMS Leopard (ship)|HMS Leopard]]'' to be repaired. It strongly resembles [[Kerguelen Island]…
    546 B (82 words) - 14:28, 10 June 2007
  • Ringle
    …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 ''[…
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  • Royal Navy ranks
    … Rear Admiral's uniform. A Commodore of the second rank had to command the ship as well as the squadron. Commodores flew a broad pennant. |The commander of a "post ship", this was at least a [[rate|sixth rate]], carrying between 20-28 guns.
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  • Letter of marque (document)
    …reluctantly accepts a letter of marque in order to captain [[HMS Surprise (ship)|HMS Surprise]] (now owned by [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]]) in order to con…
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  • Post Captain (rank)
    …' of a ship of war is the commanding officer of a ship, [[galley]], [[fire ship]] or the like. This officer ranks with a [[colonel]] in the land-service.…
    305 B (43 words) - 03:15, 18 November 2007
  • US frigate Chesapeake
    …l six frigates that was not constructed under Humphreys' supervision. The ship's construction at Norfolk was instead supervised by Humphreys' former frie… …he was forced to strike colors to the British fourth-rate ''[[HMS Leopard (ship)|HMS Leopard]]'' after ''Leopard'' had fired into her while enforcing a se…
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  • Summary for The Wine-Dark Sea
    guns - ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' loses [[mast]], Reade overboard - ''Franklin'' out of sight …
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  • Summary for The Yellow Admiral
    …- [[Royal Society]] Club - Chileans come to the Grapes - ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' to go to Chile while peace lasts - will take the women and c…
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  • Summary for HMS Surprise
    takes store-ship ''Dromadaire'' instead - Chinese and Malay ex-pirate hands …in [[Lexicon:Bath|Bath]] - Sir Joseph suggests voyage of ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' with Stanhope to [[Kampong]] - Jack released to the Grapes -…
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