The Wooden World, Part 7.

[thebrettguy]

Aside from the daily work routine, broken up occasionally by reaching port, there was plenty of training, and not just for the young men. Regular firing drills of the guns, the evening call of 'beat to quarters' so that getting to their battle stations on board ship took a shockingly short time, practicing sword techniques and learning to load and

Comments

[dabria]

Fantastic post. Poor Rothwell, he will just never live up to old Norrignton's reputation, will he?

*sigh*

Doomed to fail from day one. So sad. So true.

I am so tired

[thebrettguy]

Probably not. But he's good in his own way, and will build his own reputation. We can't all be Norringtons, and the Navy will just have to make do with a runner up ;)