Navy stuff, history stuff, sailing stuff
I'm fascinated by what might have happened to Norrington as a consequence of letting Jack walk away. Courts-martial do indeed pop up occasionally in POTC fic, so I thought I'd share with you a resource I've been using for what I'm writing. It's a book published in 1851, but given how conservative the Navy seems to have been (in my limited reading about it, at least) I doubt the procedure changed dramatically in a hundred years. And let's face it, this is fanfic, so if we miss a few details, we're not going to get a bad grade.
A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Naval Courts-Martial, by William Hickman
The author actually intended this to be used as a handbook by officers on overseas stations, so it's very very detailed.
Another amazing thing I found is a year-by-year history of the West Indies published in 1827, extremely dry reading and of course rather troubling to the post-colonial reader, but it certainly gives you a sense of what was happening on those islands on the mundane level. Local politics are the focus, and among other things, you realize just how dramatically the realities of race and slavery are obfuscated in the films. Well, yeah. But still.
Chronological History of the West Indies, vol. II, by Captain Thomas Southey
Here's one more neat thing if you're a stickler for getting the sailing details right:
The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, vol. I, U.S. Hydrographic Office
It's a pilot guide from 1892 and it's fun if you're into this sort of thing.
Google Books is awesome.
A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Naval Courts-Martial, by William Hickman
The author actually intended this to be used as a handbook by officers on overseas stations, so it's very very detailed.
Another amazing thing I found is a year-by-year history of the West Indies published in 1827, extremely dry reading and of course rather troubling to the post-colonial reader, but it certainly gives you a sense of what was happening on those islands on the mundane level. Local politics are the focus, and among other things, you realize just how dramatically the realities of race and slavery are obfuscated in the films. Well, yeah. But still.
Chronological History of the West Indies, vol. II, by Captain Thomas Southey
Here's one more neat thing if you're a stickler for getting the sailing details right:
The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, vol. I, U.S. Hydrographic Office
It's a pilot guide from 1892 and it's fun if you're into this sort of thing.
Google Books is awesome.