Author: Nodbear
Description:An account of a historical costume maker that will bring a smile to some readers.
And: it does feature breeches...

under the cut for sartorial education:)
( I promised )

I saw this on Tumblr-- and I wanted you all to see it before it got covered up by other things.

The Signs as Georgian Navy Admirals:

tatzelwyrm:

Aries: Hood - you’re great, really, but somehow all people tend to remember are your fuckups.

Taurus: Cornwallis - you’re steady, reliable and hellishly judgemental. When are you going to shut up about the ( Read more... )

If you cast your minds back, some of you might remember the tiger acquired by Pellew in India, that has put in an appearance in various historical and fictional posts here. Pellew seems to have had a bit of a weakness for exotic animals in general and tigers in particular, which caused his wife Susan no small degree of consternation. You may ( Read more... )

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Here are a few more photographs from my recent visit to Canonteign showing a rather grand black marble memorial to Ned and the storyboards of his history.


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Actually it is a moot point whether Canonteign was really ever a 'home' for Edward and Susan Pellew. Though the land was acquired and the house built mainly by Susan's oversight since it was she who supervised and dealt with much of the process of what became their official seat as Lord and Lady Exmouth, it was never really their home other than ( Read more... )

My recent post on Ned Pellew's final orders No singing no sermon

made eglantine_br ask what form his funeral would have taken in that case.

Some thoughts on that and how the TV series depicts burials at sea follow under the cut.

( When the sea shall give up her dead )

A short historical post to accompany the newly available digitised image of the burial register of Christow church, Devon in which Edward Pellew shows himself to be his own man to the last.

Author: Nodbear
Summary :Images of the burial register of Christow church in Devon


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Happy Birthday Captain anteros_lmc with many huzzahs and cheers and a gun salute ( Read more... )

Antoine Vanner writes Naval Adventure set later in the 19th century, at the beginning of the steam warship era.  However, he covers a broader spectrum of Naval Warfare and history on his blog.  The most recent posting on the Dawlish Chronicles blog details the actions between HMS Indefatigable, HMS Amazon, and Droits de l'HommeBecause of Sir Edward ( Read more... )