08-08-2017, 10:30 AM | #41 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Meaning? Expand the theme with specifics?
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08-08-2017, 11:02 AM | #42 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
The background more or less given, one being a new rich merchants son, and the other from an old rich rural gentry. The characters can have rivalry, odd friendship or whatever. Johnson is associated with middle class London and Austen is associated with rural gentry so I was trying to get an idea of the background to be imagined.
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08-08-2017, 11:29 AM | #43 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
One source is The Wooden World by Nicholas Andrew Martin Roger
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08-08-2017, 02:16 PM | #44 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Funny, it says N.A.M. Rodger on my copy...
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08-08-2017, 02:51 PM | #45 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
And on mine. But I looked up the full name just to make sure he got it.
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08-08-2017, 03:03 PM | #46 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Looking into it now at Amazon. :) $15 more or less, with free 2 day shipping. Wife would probably prefer I not pick it up at this time, but it is now on my "list" of books to pick up someday. :)
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08-08-2017, 05:02 PM | #47 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Note different spelling of last name.
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08-08-2017, 06:05 PM | #48 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
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08-08-2017, 08:35 PM | #49 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Soldier (Napoleonic Royal Navy) skill?
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08-09-2017, 12:56 AM | #50 |
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Re: Age of Sail: Identifying Skills for a Midshipman
Not sure. Something like it is certainly needed for later periods but a lot of it comes under Seamanship for the Napoleonic period. I left it out of my post because the skill lists were already fairly long.
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