Category Archives: Culture and Life Style Ashore
Nelson And His World
One of the great things about blogging on a specialty topic is running into lots of people with similar interests. In the past I’ve introduced you to Old Grey Pony’s chronicles of life in Georgian England as drawn from contemporaneous … Continue reading
A Sunday Morning Hornpipe
from MacDarra Ó Raghallaigh
Filed under Age of Sail, Culture and Life Style Ashore
The Breeze at Spithead. Part 10. Investigation and Lessons Learned.
One of the bugbears afflicting the British government during the Spithead mutiny was the notion that the mutiny was actually operating under the control of either the French revolutionary regime, the United Irishmen, or some similar seditious element. The idea … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Culture and Life Style Ashore, Mutiny
Panton, Leslie & Company
In the third of Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels, The King’s Commission, freshly commissioned Lieutenant Alan Lewrie finds himself assigned the mission of escorting a covert British mission to arm Indians in North Florida and encourage them to raid into … Continue reading
A Misty, Moisty Morning
From Baltic Gambit as Captain Alan Lewrie’s HMS Thermopylae joins Admiral Sir Hyde Parker’s frigates moving to attack the Danish fleet at Copenhagen: Sails sprang aloft, even as the best bower was rung up, catted, and fished, and Thermopylae paid … Continue reading
Lord St. Vincent on Marriage
Life as a British naval officer during the Age of Sail was tough. Ships were typically commissioned for three years and it would not be uncommon for a naval officer to spend that entire period of time aboard ship. A … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Culture and Life Style Ashore, Naval Life
Life in Georgian England, part 2
A little while ago I introduced you to an intriguing blog devoted to life in Georgian England. As I said at the time, more than most other Age of Sail novels, Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie books take you into the … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Alan Lewrie Novels, Culture and Life Style Ashore
Britain and Slavery
The plot in Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels Sea of Grey, Havoc’s Sword, A King’s Trade, and Troubled Waters takes place in the context of slavery. Slavery in Haiti and British possessions in the West Indies, specifically, but more broadly … Continue reading
Manton Pistols
We’ve discussed some of the esoteric armaments that have come in the possession of Dewey Lambdin’s naval character, Alan Lewrie. In The French Admiral he acquired a Ferguson rifle. In The Captain’s Vengenace he picked up a Girandoni air rifle. … Continue reading
Hey, Johnnie Cope
One of the things that I find sets Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels apart from others in the genre is that the hero, a rather roguish British Navy officer, lives in the culutral context of the times. When you read … Continue reading
