Stephen had known Mowett and Pullings since they were mere snotty reefers of no consequence whatsoever, and at any other time he would have snapped them as tight shut as a snuff-box; but now their vast moral superiority, the general strong mute disapprobation of the Worcester's company, and his own wet misery left him without a word, and although ( Read more... )

Old Sophies and new acquaintances. The medicoes, Killick and his wife, and... Wray.

'Well, Killick, I trust you are not rushing into matrimony without due consideration? Matrimony is a very serious thing.'
'Oh no, sir. I considered of it: I considered of it, why, the best part of twenty minutes. There was three to choose on, and this here - ' ( Read more... )

Admiral Bertie, Pullings, Keating, Clonfert and McAdam, and everyone else!

McAdam sat on the side of the bed, weeping now, his fury gone with his shouting; and between his sobs he said, "It was the cheering that woke him. What are they cheering for? says he, and I said the French have surrendered. Aubrey will be here and you shall have your Nereide ( Read more... )

*cough* Looks like Corbett's plum hadn't had any effect on him after all.

Officers, landsmen and seamen all lumped together. Spare some love for our Pullings.

"How is Captain Corbett," asked Jack. "Did the French take him aboard?" 
Silence. Then, "Don't know, sir." He looked at them in surprise. In front of him was a row of closed faces: the rare, ( Read more... )

This will no doubt be mostly for Clonfert, Pym and McAdam.

Now the silence fell again. The four French ships--for the Windham, shying at the entrance and the fort, had stood out along the coast--moved smoothly down to anchor in twenty fathom water off the Olive bank, half way to Port South-East, and Clonfert returned to the island with a strong ( Read more... )

So basically anyone who isn't Jack or Stephen.

"Now, gentlemen," said the Commodore, when they were all assembled, "when can your ships proceed to sea?" 
If it were not for Pym's vile newfangled iron tanks, the Sirius could be ready in a couple of days: if it had not been for the yard's incomprehensible delay over the long-promised iron horse, the ( Read more... )