I used to love tobacco.

I began drinking smoke when I was fifteen- most officers and crewman on the Henrietta did so. Tobacco was never lacking at sea, even when we might have been short of other supplies. My father had been a pipe smoker, though by the time I was at sea, he had given it up in favour of taking snuff, which in his words was 'better ( Read more... )

He's dreamt of his future ever since he discovered that he had one again ( Read more... )

Ten years ago, I had been stationed in Port Royal for perhaps a year or so. I was lieutenant, under the command of Commodore Thomas Ashworth on the ship of the line Augustus. Weatherby Swann was governor of Jamaica, and Jack Sparrow was barely a speck on my horizon, known to me only as a troublemaker branded by the East India Trading Company for ( Read more... )

The most dangerous thing I've ever done is sail my ship into a hurricane. The circumstances of why I sailed my ship into that hurricane are well-known by this point....I've addressed it before and won't do so again here ( Read more... )

If I don't understand someone after a first meeting, then I must study them until I can understand them adequately- this is particularly pertinent when it comes to officers in other navies. We engage in pleasantries without ever quite getting to the heart of who we are. Today I may drink wine with the French commander of the West Indian fleet, and ( Read more... )

The question of ‘What will you do if you cannot sail?’ always passes through my mind, though not in a time of battle as many might think. No, it is a question I ponder to myself when all is quiet, when I have the time to mull over it.

If I could never sail again.....I honestly do not know. After the Dauntless was shipwrecked I did not want to ( Read more... )

A mundane topic, talking about the weather, but if you insist ( Read more... )

( Challenge Two hundred and eight-five: What have you done to make ends meet when you were poor? (268 words) )

( Challenge Two hundred and eighty-three: What languages do you speak? (374 words) )

There are two ways I could die: at sea or on land ( Read more... )