Perfect Duet, the comm for all things Master and Commander: Books and Movie, will be celebrating the Advent and Christmas season with a new version of the Advent Calendar 2016.

We cannot do it alone, so we invite you to join in the fun.

How it works:
1) For Livejournal, please comment at Perfect Duet here or at Perfect Duet’s sister comm on ( Read more... )

We first sailed with Surprise and other ships of the Aubreyad from December 12, 2007 to June 24th, 2012.

We will soon be leaving Port Mahón for Battles! Spies! Hot Chicks! Uniforms! Aardvarks! Shipwrecks! Traumatic Historical Medicine! Cannon! Sea Monsters! Prisons! Ships, Sloops, Frigates, Really Big Boats! Storms! Fighting Naturalists! Wombats! ( Read more... )

As there never can be enough of the dear frigate who will never be old, I looked up the wiki entry for Surprise (replica ship) and was delighted to find a link there to
Reviving Surprise about the Reconfiguration of 'HMS' Rose into 'HMS' Surprise for Her Role in 'Master and Commander', and Restoring her Certification as presented to the Society of ( Read more... )

'Sure a quail is a very acceptable dish,' said Stephen to his first assistant, 'but, Mr Lewis, I cannot recommend the eating of her in her northward migration. Apart from the moral issue at this particular juncture, apart from the impiety that Mr Martin so rightly abhors, you are to observe that the quail, eating noxious seeds on the African main, ( Read more... )

Having been advised that my LJ has been purged, taking with it all comments made (as far as latin_cat could tell at the time), I feel that I need to inform those of you who remember me that I have not died or dropped off the face of the Internet ( Read more... )

Many of us still remember Max Benitz well as midshipman and acting lieutenant Peter Calamy.

How interesting that he should have shunned the movie world and rather went on to study soldiers' lives in Afghanistan plus write a book about his experience.

As part of the events during the Cochrane Exhibition in Edinburgh, there will be the opportunity to watch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World on the big screen on December 18th

Anybody in the vicinity grab that chance! (The exhibition is also a must for any AoS fan)

The Patrick O’Brian books will be released in e-book format from December 5th, 2011 on.

Thought you’d like to know.

:D

Also, Tor.com re-reads the Aubreyad

X-posted to
anything_aos
I had wanted to crosspost to obriansnavy too, to spread the word, but received this message instead:
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Since Patrick O’Brian’s Captain Jno Aubrey, RN is based on this gentleman, this exhibition may be interesting to AoS fans living in and around Edinburgh or planning to go there. Tthe National Museum of Scotland will be housing an exhibition on Thomas Lord Cochrane from October 7th on.

There will be many interesting events like a lecture by Dr ( Read more... )

Hundreds of boats dropped anchor to watch a film on a huge screen at the world's first sail-in movie ( Read more... )