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Reading all these make me once again pissed abt how Jack was made post late and I cannot stop thinking abt it so I had to look up whether or not he was made an admiral eventually and the answer is yes. I can now read in peace.

I miss Aubrey & Maturin so much but I cannot afford to start a series I know will make me OBSESSED and take over my life completely when finals are in three weeks.

movies make it seems like deserters are punishable by death so might as well join the pirates when in reality the officers be like idgaf.

Need to make a tier list of different jobs in the navy in 18th-19th century when I'm done with this book. Pursuer is near the bottom.

"The eighteenth-century Navy combined the disciplined efficiency of a man-of-war with large elements of the playground, the farmyard, and the travelling circus."

Marine sounds like a chill job tbh. Don't have to keep watch, can continue sleeping through 'all hands on deck' etc. They're just chilling around guarding the magazine and making scary faces at the crews when there's flogging and that's abt it.

the first chapter was literally just a description of what each positions on a ship do and what's the different between a commission and warrant officer etc but for whatever reason I'm smiling hard jsjsjfbdb


I want to reread master and commander already. I need to finish all 21 books (19 left!) so I can come back to reread the first one.

Loving this so far - a thorough and well structured look at the Georgian Navy (a topic I don't know nearly enough about!)

N.A.M. Rodger has done an awesome job so far of succinctly address many myths about the navy at this time using lots of data and stats, but in a very entertaining way!

Definitely getting a good feel for what life would've been like for all strata of naval officers and 'idlers'.