despatches | Age of Sail Despatches #14

Editor's Note
I couldn't get back any further than the 8th of January on the Reader, so if anyone posted anything between the 6th and the 8th of January that you would like me to link to, please comment with a link to it.

Fanfic:
Moon Under Water by

feroxargentea. (PG-13) Sequel to The World Turned Upside Down by

astolat. Aubreyad
An Overdue Interview by

latin_cat. (PG) Hornblower/Barbara, Wellington, Richard Hornblower. 1815: After Waterloo, Hornblower is reunited with his family. Hornblower
Thin Ice by

vanilla_elf (PG-13 to very mild R) Norrington/Gillette, Garrow/Sarah, Jones/Jasker, Mr. Southouse, Mr. Silvester, Sir Arthur Hill, Mary, Mr. Farmer, Judge Buller and many more. Garrow asks Norrington to give a testimony of character for a sailor on trial at the Old Bailey. PotC (RNotC) / Garrow's Law, a hint of Aubreyad

Of historical interest:

vanilla_elf posts To Emma, With Love

vanilla_elf posts Bebreeched Regency Bare Fist Fighters

Miscellany and Meta

sharpiefan posts about Speed Dating Georgian Style: An Event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

esteven posts about a Patrick O'Brian Weekend at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Communities and challenges:

vanilla_elf wants support for a Collingwood Society

Rec of the Week:
(This week's rec is among the first fanfics I ever read, on my first forays into fandom. It remains one of my favourites and is a wonderful oakum story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.)
Transfer to the Rifles by Sue Law. (PG) How would a man like Sharpe cope with walking into a strange regiment uninvited, and how would that strange regiment, the 95th Rifles, react to Sharpe? Could Sharpe's devotion to the regiment start at this point? Sharpe, Colonel Wade Sharpe

Got a link for the next issue?
Please comment and let us know. And please tell your AoS friends about us. The more, the merrier, after all!

Note: For fic links, M&C = Master and Commander or Aubreyad, HH = Hornblower, POTC = Pirates of the Caribbean, S = Sharpe. Others will be added as required.

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I posted minutes too late for these despatches. *sniffles*

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*

Edited to include it.

I wish I had that sort of money. *sighs* Wonder if I could sneak into the Royal Marines lecture, on the cheap?

Thank you.

Maybe if you contact Pompey? Or maybe they know if the lecture will be held somewhere else too.

You are very welcome. :D

I think I may well do that thing. And take notes. Many many notes. :D Pompey's OK for me - my brother's down there so I can bunk down with him if necessary.

And then you write up all about it. :D
*crosses fingers for you*

Enquiry email sent. I hope I get a favourable reply - even ONE lecture attended by a fan would be something of an achievement for fandom. :D

If nothing else they may at least be able to tell you where else if not in this context the lecture might be held again.

Guess those attending the complete weekend are fans to, a rather august boy of fans though...

I could do without Mr Tolstoy who seems to cash in on his step-father's name, but the Marines, the Naval Surgeons and Mr Hunt would make my day...just as the concert and the dinner

They sound like the wardroom sort of fans... whereas we're the ignorant, cheap foremast hands. *g*

Still, Jack himself was a foremast hand once.

(And if... IF I do get to attend even the one lecture, I shall certainly post my write-up and impressions on hms_surprise, or p_d on LJ. There is no way I would deprive the LJ-based fans of my poor gleanings, despite how I feel about LJ itself.)

Much as I'd love to be there, I' rather be a foremast jack fan together with lots of others. The wardroom can be very lonely an not much fun. ;D ...or so I keep telling myself...

Thank you. I think p_d and/or hms_s would be thrilled and grateful,and you can always sneak in some Jack and Stephen.

You'll be watching Holmes with morelindo? Give him my regards. ;D

Oh, it's certainly much more fun before the mast with all of you!

I will certainly do my best to sneak in some Jack and Stephen.

(And I did promise a while back that I'd write something on the Marines for the Hornblower community, following_sea.)

Hornblower community? I am certain your fic will be a pleasure to read.

Oh well.... ;D

What I had in mind for following_sea was more of an essay-type thing about the Marines. Perhaps it would be possible to cross-post to hms_surprise. Or failing that, it'll show up on anything_aos.

Also... Just got an email back to say that YES I can attend the Marines lecture!!!

*dances round the room*

You are forgiven then. :D

hms_surprise and anything_aos would be brilliant.

*envies totally*
Could you not ask for the Geoff Hunt, or the Naval Surgeons too.

Those would be of immense interest to me, and a lot of others...and you are hereby requested to take notes...or maybe Latin can ask too, and attend one of those.

And when you are there, you can enquire if it would generally be possible for fans to attend those lectures the next time they do such a weekend.

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