Re: This place needs an adrenaline shot!
Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
It's totally stagnated here. What the hell is with everyone? People are being soooooo normal and unenthusiastic about breaking new ground and causing controversy! Somebody offend someone or something. 😠
We are just having one of those days/nights.
Originally posted by Wålshy
**** you you wife virgin
Ask your mom about that one, son.
Here's a bit more on the Sophie . . .
HMS Sophie
"... she was a slow brig, an old brig and a brig that was very unlikely to make his fortune."
1800 - 1801: Jack Aubrey's first command, described in Master and Commander is the brig-rigged "sloop" HMS Sophie, operating out of Port Mahon in the western Mediterranean. Towards the end of the novel, the first book in the series, Sophie is captured on the Spanish coast by a French squadron led by Admiral Linois.
Although the activities of the Sophie and her dimensions and armament were modeled closely on those of real-life HMS Speedy, commanded by Thomas, Lord Cochrane, the quarterdeck - unusual for a small sloop - was taken from HMS Vincejo, captured from the Spanish navy in 1799. Indeed, In the novel the Sophie is pointed out by one naval officer as being the former "Vencejo" - an alternative spelling - although in fact the Vincejo kept its original name while serving in the Royal Navy until captured by the French at Quiberon Bay in 1804. The Speedy, like the fictional Sophie, was captured in 1801 by Linois.
Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=old man knows old shit
Ask your mom about that one, son.Here's a bit more on the Sophie . . .
HMS Sophie
"... she was a slow brig, an old brig and a brig that was very unlikely to make his fortune."
1800 - 1801: Jack Aubrey's first command, described in Master and Commander is the brig-rigged "sloop" HMS Sophie, operating out of Port Mahon in the western Mediterranean. Towards the end of the novel, the first book in the series, Sophie is captured on the Spanish coast by a French squadron led by Admiral Linois.
Although the activities of the Sophie and her dimensions and armament were modeled closely on those of real-life HMS Speedy, commanded by Thomas, Lord Cochrane, the quarterdeck - unusual for a small sloop - was taken from HMS Vincejo, captured from the Spanish navy in 1799. Indeed, In the novel the Sophie is pointed out by one naval officer as being the former "Vencejo" - an alternative spelling - although in fact the Vincejo kept its original name while serving in the Royal Navy until captured by the French at Quiberon Bay in 1804. The Speedy, like the fictional Sophie, was captured in 1801 by Linois.