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106 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

--- Batrinque@AOL.COM wrote: > In a message dated 3/24/06 7:49:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, > chintzandcalico@ATT.NET writes: > > > Killick is a steady presence with sterling qualities > > Steling silver, that is. Especially the polishing thereof. > Woe be to Jack if he had ever had a service of silver-plate - Killick would have polished through to the copper in no time! Gary K. McCormick 37:18:20N 121:54:37W To be removed from the GUNROOM list send a bla ...

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107 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

In a message dated 3/24/06 7:49:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, chintzandcalico@ATT.NET writes: > Killick is a steady presence with sterling qualities Steling silver, that is. Especially the polishing thereof. Bruce Trinque 41°37'52"N 72°22'29"W To be removed from the GUNROOM list send a blank message to UNSUBSCRIBE-GUNROOM@HMSSURPRISE.ORG

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108 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Don Seltzer wrote: >I will simply add this observation of Gary Brown, from his soon to be published POB Muster >Book, > > 'Killick's many admirers will enjoy that his is the final proper name to appear in *O'Brian's >manuscript; though both Captain *Miller and his servant *Wainwright appear, unnamed, after him >('21' MS, at the second version of III 15). ' > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:32:29 -0500, Charlezzzzz <charlezzzzz@COMCAST.NET> ...

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109 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Don Seltzer wrote: > > I will simply add this observation of Gary Brown, from his soon to be > published POB Muster Book, > > 'Killick's many admirers will enjoy that his is the final proper name > to appear in *O'Brian's manuscript; though both Captain *Miller and > his servant *Wainwright appear, unnamed, after him ('21' MS, at the > second version of III 15). ' > Those admirers worry me. Some years back, I suggested we rate the ...

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Message Date:	2006-03-23 19:59:20 UTC

110 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

It is noticeable that the only time Jack really gets the better of Killick is when he falls in the sea while trying to board via the stern in 'Clarissa Oakes'. Jack and Stephen both gloat for a while over how they have the better of him. It doesn't last, of course. To me Killick the the third character of the Canon. Did Hornblower have a mad, drunken, irreverent, incompetent, competent steward? No. Killick is wonderful. On 23/03/06, Don Seltzer <timoneer@gmail.com> wrote: & ...

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111 Re: Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

On 3/23/06, Charlezzzzz <charlezzzzz@comcast.net> wrote: > Charlezzzzz, hoping that some Lissun who has volume 21 to hand > will comment on POB's plans for Jack's grouchy domineering servant -- > a character handed down from the evasive complaining cowardly slaves > of the Roman playwright Plautus > I will simply add this observation of Gary Brown, from his soon to be published POB Muster Book, 'Killick's many admirers will enjoy that his is the final proper nam ...

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Message Date:	2006-03-23 18:45:33 UTC

112 Last looks at Killick: BATM spoiler -- rank: 633

We've looked at Killick in the first books of the canon; now let's watch his last scenes in Chapter Ten, the final chapter of Blue at the Mizzen. Here are three three last looks at Killick: [Here's what happens when POB tells us that Killick snoops to find out what Jack is going to do. It's not the only place in the canon where this happens, but it seems to me that POB here is "telling" us more than he's "showing" us -- an unusual approach for him.] Most shi ...

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Message Date:	2006-03-23 17:14:33 UTC

113 Re: Spoilers Abound (BATM and beyond) was Re: [POB] Thanks for the welcome! -- rank: 633

On 2/8/06, Ronnie Caton <ronniecaton@gmail.com> wrote: > It finally hit me around page 100 that I was reading the wrong book. > Jumped right over THD and into BATM. Decisions decisions. Stop now > and wait until I get back home in a week or keep going. I decided to > keep going. Been there, done that... When I started`reading "The Wine Dark Sea" I began wondering who Clarissa Oakes was. Somehow I had managed to miss the publication of the book.

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Message Date:	2006-02-08 00:54:07 UTC

114 Spoilers Abound (BATM and beyond) was Re: [POB] Thanks for the welcome! -- rank: 633

> --- "llattan@earthlink.net" <llattan@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: <snip> > Here I am amazed that at the end of "The Yellow Admiral" when > domestic bliss and father -son bonding is ever so evident for > suddenly, Boney ( the great villain of the world) has escaped, > and Jack is to fly his broad pennant and command the blockade. > Oh joy!. Huzzah ! > <snip> Well, I for one wish you had posted that message a couple of weeks ago. I ...

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Message Date:	2006-02-08 00:40:33 UTC

115 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

Op 18-jan-2006, om 10:19 heeft Batrinque@AOL.COM het volgende geschreven: > Jack > receives orders to "proceed to the River Plate, there joining the > South African > squadron: Jack wouldn't have been in this, but tonight on BBC 2 Timewatch is devoted to archeological research into the Battle of the River Plate. Elise van Looij To be removed from the GUNROOM list send a blank message to UNSUBSCRIBE-GUNROOM@HMSSURPRISE.ORG

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Message Date:	2006-01-27 20:24:44 UTC

116 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

SPOILERS THD, BATM, 21 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '' ' ' Op 18-jan-2006, om 10:19 heeft Batrinque@AOL.COM het volgende geschreven: > At the end of BATM Jack > receives orders to "proceed to the River Plate, there joining the > South African > squadron: you will go aboard HMS Implacable, hoisting your flag, > blue at the > mizzen and take command of the blue squadron." Yet, early in > 21:FUV we are > told ...

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Message Date:	2006-01-19 09:43:33 UTC

117 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/18/06 2:32:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, jjfabriek@CHELLO.NL writes: > And that was in full war time, when Mauritius and the NL East Indies still > were in enemy's hands, making capetown an operational base. So it is my > guess that during peace in 1818 it must have been considerably smaller. Or > wouldn't you agree? I would certainly imagine so. Bruce Trinque 41°37'52"N 72°22'29"W To be removed from the GUNROOM list send a blank message ...

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118 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

Batrinque@AOL.COM wrote: > >In Lavery's "Nelson's Navy" it is indicated that in June, 1808, the South >African force was composed of two ships of the line, four frigates, and eight >smaller vessels. > >Bruce Trinque >41?37'52"N 72?22'29"W And that was in full war time, when Mauritius and the NL East Indies still were in enemy's hands, making capetown an operational base. So it is my guess that during peace in 1818 it must have been consi ...

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Message Date:	2006-01-18 22:46:48 UTC

119 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/18/06 3:09:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, jjfabriek@CHELLO.NL writes: > Iirc in 21:FUV not less than three squadrons consisting mostly of 74s > sailed from the River Plate to Capetown. I have always felt that was > rather a large fleet for such a station, though maybe part was earmarked > for duty further east. Still I would imagine that the naval forces at > Capetown would consist mostly of frigates and smaller craft, maybe backed > up by one (o ...

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120 Re: Changing Ships BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS -- rank: 633

In a message dated 1/18/06 1:25:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, Batrinque@AOL.COM writes: > BATM and 21:FUV SPOILERS below: > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > > > But why the change on POB's part? Was it merely authorial forgetfulness? > It > does not appear to be because of any particular desire for historical > ...

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Message Date:	2006-01-18 22:07:04 UTC