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.

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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.

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This Sunday BBC radio 4 broadcast part 3 of The Mauritius Command and you will have a number of times to listen to it. :D

I blush to admit that though the music used in part 3 is ever so familiar to me, I cannot for the life of me think of the titles. Please help?

Thank you.

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The Mauritius Command on BBC radio 4 extra:

Listen to part 2, where (as the Beeb describes it) Jack needs subtlety and subterfuge to win over his fleet’s crews and subordinate captains.

Jack subtlety?
*shakes head*

But this part 2 is as charming as part 1

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feroxargentea posted on hms_surprise that there will be a radio adaptation of The Mauritius Command starting this coming Sunday.

The Radio Times listing says: Gather up your cross-catharpins, hoist the commodore's broad pendant and clew up the main and fore courses, there! It's the fourth in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of stories about Captain Jack (the 19th- ( Read more... )

Why not read Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series in between the Aubreyad? Apart from describing murder, mayhem and corruption in Venice, Ms Leon writes about the everyday life of the Commissario and his family: wife Paola, son Raffi and 15-year-old daughter Chiara.

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Got 625 GBP + accomodation + travel arrangements to spare?

March, Friday, 11th to Sunday 13th

Lectures will be on Patrick O'Brian (Count Tolstoy),The Nelsonian Naval Surgeon at Work Age (Mick Crumplin), The Forgotten Heroes: The Royal Marines in the Age of Nelson and Illustrating Naval History (Geoff Hunt).

*sighs*

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Thomas Cochrane, the son of a nobleman and inventor, was forced to join the Royal Navy as a teenager when his family's estate had to be sold off.

Now one of Britain's most successful and controversial naval figures of all time is to be honoured with a major exhibition in his native land, dedicated to his extraordinary life and military career ( Read more... )

There are a few photos here from this year's Navy Days.

Navy's Summer Extravaganza Returns to Portsmouth in 2010
Don’t miss what promises to be one the most popular events on the South Coast this summer!

Navy Days at Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, Friday 30th July - Sunday 1st August, will feature serving warships of the Royal Navy, ships of foreign navies, thrilling naval displays, historical re- ( Read more... )