Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Anniversary of C. S. Forester's Death Thursday April 2, 2009 All Day ...
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Apr 2, 2009 3:28 am
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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Jamie Bamber's birthday Friday April 3, 2009 All Day (This event...
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Apr 3, 2009 3:26 am
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Wow. This group has gotten really quiet, hasn't it! Used to be pretty active. Just an update on me, I'm back in the states after spending the last 2 years in...
Gawd, yes, start with the tall ships at Baltimore's Inner Harbor! Write me offline and we can talk, seeing as I'm in DC too. Every Day An Adventure To:...
Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Anniversary of Gregory Peck's birth Sunday April 5, 2009 All Day (This...
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Welcome back, Paul! Yes, it's been quiet, and I dunno about anyone else but I've been mega busy grandbabysitting and copyediting and writing and reading and...
Yea, whatever happened to the book talk? And the con? Every Day An Adventure To: Hornblower-L@yahoogroups.com From: alleypat@... Date: Wed, 20 May 2009...
You know that old saying about things coming in waves? Though an apt metaphor for this group, I think that we're in a bit of a trough. We need a good--and...
I can't even rmember which we were reading, was it Atropos? Every Day An Adventure To: Hornblower-L@yahoogroups.com From: baeden2020@... Date: Wed, 20...
Hi Lee, While Atropos is a wonderful book, I have to admit to rather enjoying the past discussion regarding the fashions/customs of the day (and how they...
Beth I love the social history.obest.which is why I can spend a lot of time in a museum.i was able to see our local army museum since the security was ...
Hi Bronwyn--haven't heard from you in along time, Everything all right in your neck of the woods? It's just my opinion, but while all history is important and...
... In that case it would probably say not to answer any questions about looking big in this. I remember seeing a pair of the genuine articles on a television...
Martinus, you dog! And which channel might that have been? Dare I ask about your collection of French postcards? Be that as it may, I've never thought that...
... Believe it or not, the BBC. Blue Peter, a children's programme. Somewhere in the mid 1960s. Not a sight that easily fades from the memory. -- Martinus...
The things we imprint on when we're young...I have a soft spot for Jaguars (the cars) from when my beloved grandfather had one when I was 5 or 6. Of course,...
Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal National Maritime Day (U.S.) Friday May 22, 2009 All Day (This event...
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May 22, 2009 3:25 am
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No prob at all. I, too, am more interested in the way people lived, although there really is nothing like a good fast adventure story of a cold February...
From an actual letter in The Naval Chronicle: Letter from Mr. William Munro, Schoolmaster, of Thurso, to Dr. Thorrence, regarding a Mermaid seen by him some...
How wonderful-one yearns to know if the correspondence was continued and what may have come of his. I also have a mental image of the typesetters at the naval...
Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Anniversary of Gregory Peck's death Friday June 12, 2009 All Day (This...
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On the 13th of June, at 8 a.m., Cape Bon bearing south-west distant seven miles, the British 38-gun frigate Pomone, Captain Robert Barrie, captured, after a...
On the 14th of June, in the morning, the British 18-gun brig-sloop Scout, Captain William Raitt, discovering a convoy of 14 or 15 sail of vessels, under the...
Wow. I can't believe it has been 6 years since he died. It seems like just last year. ... From: Hornblower-L@yahoogroups.com To: Hornblower-L@yahoogroups.com...
Thanks for these posts. What a great way to start the day. They read like the Naval Chronicle. Is that where they are from or is there a seperate book...
Yes, these are wonderful. Please continue sending them. I’d love to read the rest of the Caribbean account. Perhaps some budding C.S. Forester or Patrick...
I want to add my appreciation for these interesting historical posts from the Naval Chronicle. I read in one of the biographies of CSF that his library...
That is correct farssr wrote: I want to add my appreciation for these interesting historical posts from the Naval Chronicle. I read in one of the biographies...
Special Note for Pip: The letter regarding the mermaid came from my consolidated copy of the Naval Chronicle. Most of the others come from "The Naval History...
Shipwreck of the Sealark The Sealark was a schooner built at Wheaton's Yard in Brixham and launched 1 August 1806. On 29 June 1809 the Times printed the...
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