[Paddlewise] Master and Comander of his SOT

I have read about 2/3s of the Aubry/Mautrin series and when you read the
books you figure that this can't happen.....

But it did.  The auther went threw logs, after action reports and general
history to come up with his stories.  He might take liberty with WHEN an
action happened to fit his story line but the battles actually happened.
Aubry is a composite of several different British Captains.

I read a history book on the Napolionic Naval battles earlier in the year.
What blew my mind was that the battles in the history book I had already
read about in the Aubry/Maturin books.  What I thought was fiction or at
least fictionalised was not.

The Hornblower series is pretty good as well and the movies made for A&E a
few years ago are excellent.

What these men did was amazing.  The old saying about Iron Men in Wood
Ships is very, very true.  How these men could survive the sea for months
and YEARS at sea is amazing.   There was one ship that was sent to the Far
East for something like 15 years.  When it got back the men where NOT paid
for their years of service!!!!

If you are interested in the sea, sailing and or wee little boats these are
good books to read.

Later,
Dan McCarty
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