Despatches

Note from the Editor: Hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Reenactors Chapter 4 by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; At the outset of the engagement between the Shannon and Chesapeake, Jack and Stephen find themselves inexplicably on the deck of USS Constitution in Boston two hundred years in the future.
Reenactors Chapter 5 by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; At the outset of the engagement between the Shannon and Chesapeake, Jack and Stephen find themselves inexplicably on the deck of USS Constitution in Boston two hundred years in the future.

Son et Lumière:
Fanart: Fish Naked Like Maturin in swiss-figures.
Fanart: I was touched by Dil, a Bombay street urchin if ever I saw one by dreamboatdreamer70

Of historical interest:
vanilla_elf posts Release the hounds - Thieves steal a lock of Admiral Collingwood's hair (and more)
vanilla_elf reports Man charged, Collingwood's Lock of Hair still AWOL
From hmsacasta_feed: The Acasta Bible

Miscellany and meta:
From hmsacasta_feed: The Mail Packet - Call for creative writing! Open to Followers of the HMS Acasta
From hmsacasta_feed: Tall Ships 2013
From janeaustenblog_feed: In Defense of Persuasion
dreamboatdreamer170 posts Happy birthday Russell Crowe!
romantical posts Hornblower thoughts

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read will be reading Chapter Nine af HMS Surprise this weekend
mandc_watch will be watching Master & Commander this Saturday
esteven posts HMS Surprise - Archive

Rec of the Week: And now for something different... Badge of Hnour by lokei; Amazing Grace; G; William Wilberforce, William Pitt the Younger; It is not only his politics which set him apart. Prompt: Queues

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