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Originally Posted by chimchim
You may have the gunnery thing the wrong way round lol. The victorian navy objected to gunnery practice on the grounds it ruined the brightwork on the ships.
Nb british gunnery at jutland was fine ranging techniques on the other hand..... but thats a different thread.
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That's what I meant about the theory - they were top notch on ballistics and suchlike but very rarely fired the wretched things.
I missed the alarming high status - yes, we're probably talking a peer of the realm at that status, which might explain a diplomatic role, but might make any clandestine activity a little tricky. Might want to add "Heir" to that status - the British aristocracy is actually very small compared to many historical European examples. Native language will almost certainly be English, especially in the High Victorian Era but yes, other European languages, especially French might be expected and Latin and Greek were a big part of education at the time (although he might have avoided this by being packed off to the far more practically inclined decks* of Dartmouth at 14).
*...they had no halls. The place was literally aboard a ship until 1902.