“The press brings in all sorts.” – Captain Jack Aubrey, Master and Commander England’s sailors, while the first line of defense for the small island nation, were notorious for being the dregs of English society. At the […]
Text from Mutiny and Romance in the South Seas: A Companion to the Bounty Adventure by Sven Wahlroos. After long delays, first because of the Admiralty’s tardiness in sending Bligh his sailing orders and then because of […]
“A sad business,” said Jack shaking his head. “Yes,” said James Dillon, looking into vacancy and seeing a leaping spring of fire in the still air, a first-rate ablaze from truck to waterline, with eight […]
Upon first starting this website I also started something I called The Aubreyad Press Gang to do a group read of the series. We got through the first and second novels before the project fell […]
Admiral Lord Nelson was Jack Aubrey’s personal hero for a very good reason. Bold, ambitious and creative, he was a master tactician and helped win some of the greatest battles of the Napoleonic War. The […]
Rear Admiral William Bligh was a notorious figure well-known (by reputation) to Captain Jack Aubrey. Jack himself praises the man’s navigational skills in our beloved series, and laments his bad luck in being the victim […]
The Bligh family were resident in the parish of St. Tudy from at least 1680 and a John Bligh (or Blygh) of Bodmin was a commissioner for the suppression of monasteries in the reign of […]
While the Académie Royale des Sciences had finally solved the problem of longitude by land, there was still no way to find longitude by sea, which was vital for trading ships and naval dominance. The […]
For much of history, mankind has been preoccupied with how exactly we might determine where we are in the world at any given moment. Obviously, for sailors, this question has an even greater importance. Ancient […]
Upon first starting this website I also started something I called The Aubreyad Press Gang to do a group read of the series. We got through the first and second novels before the project fell […]
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