Diane – Jack; Esmeralda – Cochrane From The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian The boats raced to their posts. As the launch bumped heavily alongside the mainchains an indignant voice called... and two or three of the Chilians, being killed or wounded by their shot. Btw, the Esmeralda action was also mentioned in BatM as well as forming the basis for the cutting out of the Fanciulla in PC.

This one situation in the movie points towards Cochrane, but not towards the Jack Aubrey of the books. O’Brian never used it, but it was mentioned in two biographies, one by Hon. J.W. Fortescue, the...responsible for the lives of his men, and that it was the duty of the captain to forbid a boat to be lowered down. We felt the truth of what he said, but we often talked over the fate of the poor marine.

Everything you wanted to know about Thomas Cochrane... The Autobiography of a Seaman by Thomas Cochrane The Autobiography of a Seaman: Vol 2 by Thomas Cochrane The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane...Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M’Rae, John Peter Holloway and Henry Lyte… taken in shorthand by William Brodie Gurney or on Gutenberg Napoleon is Dead (The Great Stock Exchange Trial) by Richard Dal

The Battle of Algeciras What Jack and the Sophies are witnessing from aboard Desaix is 'The Battle of Algeciras Bay', which refers to two separate battles in July 1801. You can find accounts...are hereby acquitted accordingly. (Court-martial of Lord Cochrane and his officers for the loss of the Speedy 18 July 1801 –PRO:ADM 1/5357 – Public Record Office, now National Archives, Kew, London

Aubrey and Cochrane The excerpts for Aubrey are from Chapter 11 of Master and Commander The excerpts for Cochrane are from Chapters V and VI of Autobiography of a Seaman The letter at the start...a man was hurt. To have delayed for another broadside would have been to expose all on board to certain destruction, as further effort to escape was impotent, the *Speedy*’s colours were hauled down.

The Ragusan At half a mile Mr Day (he dearly loved to point a gun) put a shot across her forefoot, and she lay to with her yard lowered until the Sophie ranged alongside and Jack hailed her master...left. Promptness was however necessary; so driving the prisoners into the hold, with guns pointing down the hatchway, and leaving under the command of my brother...we shaped our course to Port Mahon.

I have not typed down the complete chase as described in the chapter, but only those excerpts of some importance. ;D Everything starts with a strange ship not returning the private signal: 'Make the...in it, and altering our course thus fortunately evaded her Anyway, that form of decoy was originally used by Robert Surcouf to successfully escape the British frigate HMS Sybille (scroll down

Cacafuego (shitfire) There is no such ship of that name, but she is based on the very real Xebec frigate El Gamo Sophie and the Cacafuego Disguising the Sophie The bosun had a large...perhaps have taken her, but feeling averse to so cruel a destruction of human life, I chose to refrain from an attack, which might not, even with that advantage in our favour, have been successful.

Jack, Thomas and Sir Harry Neale Jack on one of Dillon’s reactions 'Could the fellow possibly think I am shy?' he thought. 'That I left off chasing because I did not choose to get hurt and hurried...afterwards we fell in with H.M.S. Mutine and Salamine , which, to suit their convenience, gave into out charge a number of French prisoners, with whom and our prize we consequently returned to Leghorn

Elphinstone, Queeney, Chamier, Cochrane and Guthrie Elphinstone, Lord Keith his wife Hester, called Queeney Fiction and Facts I. Queeney’s mother marrying an Italian Jack’s assessment...of the Speedy : …to repair onboard the Speedy and take upon you the employment of Surgeon. ...with such allowance for wages and victuals for yourself as is usual for the surgeon of the said Sloop.