#midshipman monday

[ltwilliammowett]

Royal Navy dressed Uniforms - Commander, Captain, Midshipman and Admiral, by Rudolph Ackermann, 1848

#naval art #naval artifacts #naval history #uniforms #royal navy #mid 19th cenuty #midshipman monday

[clove-pinks]

A posed Royal Navy midshipman portrait, later 19th century.

#midshipman monday #midshipman #royal navy #age of steam #age of sail #naval uniform #dressed to kill #naval history #wish i could use this portrait backdrop

[lochiels]

✩ Midshipmen of the HMS Surprise

#master and commander: the far side of the world #master and commander #perioddramaedit #age of sail drama #period drama #william blakeney #peter calamy #our gifs #our creations #midshipman monday

[marryat92]

The discipline of public schools, bad and demoralizing as it is, was light, compared to the tyranny of a midshipman's berth in 1803.

— Frederick Marryat, The Naval Officer (Frank Mildmay)

Thomas Luny, A British frigate backing her sails as she heaves-to approaching Torbay with other ships of the fleet beyond, 1803. (Wikimedia Commons)

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #age of sail #frank mildmay #midshipman monday #thomas luny #frigate #royal navy #midshipman #1803 #naval history #maritime art #marine art #seascapes

[araiz-zaria]

Choose your USNA Midshipman, early 20th century edition 😏😉👀🌊

#guess who are these three midshipmen 😏😉👀 #answer will be given later 🤪 #not art #photograph #midshipman monday #us naval academy #willis augustus lee jr #willis a lee #willis a lee jr #chester nimitz #chester w nimitz #joseph james clark

[benjhawkins]

Breaching of the Margaretta, Patrick O’Brien, ca. 21st century.

The armed schooner Margaretta involved in the 1775 Battle of Machias was commanded by Midshipman James Moore from Graves’s flagship HMS Preston, and Moore’s deputy commander, Midshipman Richard Stillingfleet. Moore was wounded and later died in the aftermath of the battle, and Stillingfleet died later a few years later probably as a prisoner of war in Northampton, MA.

On July 16th 1775 Vice Admiral Graves wrote “. . . I received the disagreeable news that the Margueritta hired schooner had been attacked and taken by Rebels; . . . This Vessel except she had no Carriage Guns, was well appointed; She had Swivels, Musquets, Pistols, Hand Grenadoes, manned with twenty of the best Men of the Preston and commanded by a very good Midshipman.”

#age of sail #amrev #midshipman monday #battle of machias #once source I found said Moore was about 25 and Stillingfleet 17

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Acts of outstanding heroism apart, to get a chance of promotion, a midshipman's name had to appear on one of two lists. The first was the Admiralty's, the second belonged to the local commander-in-chief... By the time Hardy reached the South Atlantic in 1819, it had become established that lieutenant vacancies resulting from death or court martial were filled from the commander-in-chief's list, while vacancies caused by sickness or desertion were filled from the Admiralty's. Since many more came as a result of officers being invalided out than all other causes put together, this naturally gave the Admiralty men the best chance. As Hardy ruefully explained in a personal letter in July 1820, he had been 'unable to promote Mr Cox as no-one will die'!

Brian Vale, A Frigate of King George

#brian vale #midshipman monday #admiralty midshipmen

[cadmusfly]

— p171 of Mr Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat, thus raising many questions about what Marryat himself got up to when he was a midshipman

#midshipman monday #cadmus rambles #captain marryat #frederick marryat #i mean give a bunch of teenage idiots a little bit of authority and leeway #scheduled this for midshipman monday lel

[chiropteracupola]

goodfellow through the years

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #going to clarify that he is very much dead for the last one despite looking all cheery #but m&c's ghost rules have him looking pretty corporeal unless he's stressed #this was originally going to be one portrait for midshipman monday and then Things Got Out of Hand #four whole chads! wow what prosperity! #two more thoughts before I go. one I may have to do a modern-day goodfellow in the stereotypical lifeguard outfit because Look At Him #come to think of it I'm the first member of my family in ...40ish years? not to have been a lifeguard at some point. huh. #two I just realized that to a certain extent moth and compass and shipwreck steel could be summarized exactly the same #'very tired they/them with an object name is haunted by an infuriatingly cheerful dead sailor' #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow

[boatmediatourney]

weekly reminder to submit sad soggy boat guys here

even if you think your guy has already been submitted feel free to submit him again bc it helps me with bracketing :)

happy midshipman monday!

#ssbmt info #<- coining that tag now before i even put it all together #ok. now who all do i tag. #black sails #hornblower #horatio hornblower #master and commander #aubreyad #the north water #<- manifesting a sumner sweep #the terror #moby dick #the odyssey #going to weather #<- also manifesting another focsle sweep #ok. is that it? idk. pls reblog to reach a larger audience :)))

[ltwilliammowett]

Midshipman Dirk, c. 1790

#naval history #naval weapons #midshipman dirk #late 18th century #age of sail #midshipman monday

[clove-pinks]

Midshipman Monday: Mr. Lucas Saves the Day

'Mr Lucas throwing the burning shell off the deck of the Hecla at Bomersund' 1854 print (NMM).

In the Crimean War, Midshipman Charles Lucas became the first person to be awarded a Victoria Cross, the highest recognition for gallantry in the British Empire, when he seized a live shell with the fuse still hissing aboard HMS Hecla and flung it overboard during the Battle of Bomarsund in August 1854.

Another illustration of the heroic Midshipman Lucas, from his entry on Victoria Cross: The Men Behind the Medals, which also has a biography. Lucas died peacefully at home at 80 years of age in 1914, just as the First World War was breaking out.

A view from the quarter deck of HMS Bulldog in the Battle of Bomersund (Wikimedia Commons). Midshipmen stand at left.

#midshipman monday #age of steam #1850s #age of sail #crimean war #royal navy #naval history #military history #victoria cross #charles lucas #battle of bomersund #midshipmen #dressed to kill

[goldnnavy]

@clove-pinks Was going through my photos and found these, and I thought they'd be appropriate for Midshipmen Monday (though, from the other side of the pond and somewhat later in time). The story tied to these though made me quite sad in the museum. I apologize for the amount of reflection, tis an annoyance.

TEXT:

Midshipman Uniform

Date: 1866

USNAM 2019.040.002 and .003

Gift of Grace Anne Baker

Midshipman George Kronmiller, Jr. wore this vest and cap while at the Naval Academy. Kronmiller, a non-graduate of the class of 1870, had to leave the Academy after he went blind.

This is the oldest midshipman uniform in the Naval Academy Museum collection.

[marryat92]

Foreshadowing the boy-heroes of Henty and Kipling, Marryat’s midshipmen escape from home and school into realms of adventure which promise freedom but instead place them on a lowly rung of a complex pecking order of sailors, officers, and gentlemen—at the pinnacle of which stand family, country, and God. In The Settlers in Canada, Alfred Campbell says that “a midshipman’s ideas of independence are very great,” but the navy is the wrong place to realize those ideas: “I had rather range the wilds of America free and independent,” he tells his family, “than remain in the service, and have to touch my hat to every junior lieutenant.” Alfred’s discontent is, however, not quite typical, and he is happy enough when later promoted. Though there is usually a moment when Marryat’s heroes regret what they have left behind, it passes quickly.

— Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914

Nelson's Flagships at Anchor, Nicholas Pocock, 1807.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #midshipman monday #midshipmen #age of sail #royal navy #literature #patrick brantlinger #imperialism #age of fighting sail #rule of darkness #english literature #nicholas pocock #naval art #warship

[mostshipshape]

Action Report Two - "Windbound"

And so we meet again! The last half of this report that involves the results of players’ actions may be found here.

This week, our public weekly poll is about rumours, and tactics... or is it strategy? Do not tell me, I shall work it out eventually. In any case, this is a public poll that anyone can answer, which will influence the game in the weeks to come.

The deadline for this report and poll will be Monday 27th of July GMT 12am / GMT+10 10am, but I may leave the report submissions open for a day after that.

Now, on with the show!

Waves Breaking against the Wind - Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840

Captain Swanmay spends the final day or so actually on board, and it seems they aim to make up for lost time. They are friendly, introducing themselves effusively to the officers- and perhaps they come across as rather too interested. Midshipman Fairwell complains at every opportunity she can that this captain is rather too interested in her education, at which Midshipman Crawford tried to suggest that maybe that is rather the point of being a midshipman? But even Lieutenant Davies remarks, idly perhaps to Price, Tillbury or Morgan, that Swanmay is understandably enthusiastic for a new captain, and the way he says understandably is primed with implication.

The day that the HMS Pickle sets off is not what one would call fine. One could call it blustery and grey, rain spitting from the heavens and the sea lively but not so tempestuous. 

Before the ship sets off, a peculiar delivery is made. A boat manned by marines, accompanying a person dressed in fine clothes, fair of skin, wearing a veil that shrouds their features. An honoured guest? Surely not, for they are taken to a specific cabin set up with fine furniture and sturdy locks on the outside. The guest does not speak, and most on board are forbidden to interact with this guest… except for the cook, to deliver food, and the officers are not strictly forbidden here.

Captain Swanmay says this man is a guest, but does not say much more than that, only that their safety on this voyage to sail to a rendezvous startlingly near the Gallian city of Recouvrance. The captain might betray a hint of frustration while saying this, but nothing more.

There is little incident as the order to under weigh and make sail is carried out and the ship is piloted out of the port. 

I am not quite a sailor, myself, merely a clerk tasked to record and observe, but I believe the wind was quite mischievous, favourable one day and antagonistic the next, and so at times the Pickle has found herself in the sorry position of being windbound. 

In this state, there is not much one can do except to try and make way, or to anchor at night at the nearby port of Aberfal. Even if the captain’s secret orders appear to require haste and discretion, there is not so much one can do against the weather that so rules this world of wood and wind!

And so the captain has ordered some exercising of the guns and the sails. Perhaps you are involved in these drills, exercising your Gunnery, Maritime or Seamanship, or taking Command of such things to try and impress your captain or to become a fit fighting and sailing force? If your rank requires you to be involved in this, why, I will assume that you are participating anyway- but to specifically respond to this prompt for your report submission is to roll the dice and to see if you can not just be passable at the job, but competent or even exceptional.

Or are you taking the moment to socialise? The enlisted sailors who have Reputation: Gun Deck on their character sheets may elect to focus on socialising with other sailors using their personal Courtesy skills, though there is not quite enough alcohol on board to justify bonding through alcoholic consumption. Perhaps they are socialising through merriment and gambling, or friendly platonic wrestling, or even… rat racing?

But there are more ways to ingratiate yourself with the crew than just talk. Perhaps you could impress people with your Maritime or Seamanship skills and knowledge, find a way to bring up an Expertise if it is not so awkward. This may be a little trickier, but perhaps it will pay off?

Or maybe you are trying to lurk in the Shadows, to eavesdrop on more rumours about the captain, or the ship, or even the strange prisoner in that locked room?

If you have Reputation: Ward Room on your sheet, then why, your socialising happens among the graced presence of the wardroom officers. For the most part, these are the Lieutenants, let us say the Midshipmen and the five Wardroom Officers - the Chaplain, the Surgeon, the Master, the Purser and the Lieutenant of Marines. Perhaps you are trying to use your Courtesy to come across as affable to them as a group, or perhaps you are trying to build up a friendship with one in particular?

First Lieutenant Davies seems to have much on his mind, but he is not so distracted as to take more than a second to evaluate the situation. Dr Ibbot, the Surgeon, seems a little busy and harried. Mx Glyl, the Master, is more of a practical pilot than a true navigator, but they are reasonably competent at their job. Ms Bynes, the Purser, is impatient and snappish, especially after Midshipman Fairwell keeps trying to get under her skin. Lieutenant Murffey of the Marines is worldly and enjoys speaking of exotic locales.

The captain dines apart from the wardroom, of course, but Davies has invited them to a dinner with the wardroom. During this dinner, they, of course, lead the conversation, and in the interests of trying to enlighten the young midshipmen, they speak of grand naval victories of the past in a rather teacherly fashion. If you wished to try and impress the captain, you could speak of the Seamanship used in such manoeuvres or analyse the Command or Awareness of those historied figures, the Diplomacy of the institutions involved, or something else - and test your own grasp of those same skills in the process.

Or maybe you have other plans? Using Provisioning to locate luxuries? (or you could try to convince Ms Bynes the Purser to let you have one, though beware, she is not so easily convinced.) First Aid to help with Dr Ibbot’s work? Do recall that your position on the ship does dictate what activities you may or may not do, but you may ask me if you are unsure of your course of action.

Here is a link to the submission box to tell me of your intentions, and remember, anyone may ask me about NPCs, settings or clarifications.

I do remain your most obedient servant-

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[araiz-zaria]

The Fantastic Union Navy Four as Midshipmen

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Obviously this is all just my imagining 👀🙈 — they were never midshipmen concurrently (in fact, by the time Dolph joined in 1826, Glasgow was already a Lieutenant (and married for 2 years already(!))). How they looked is also my imagining, though I tried to base it on their younger selves' looks.

The number on top of them (in the fifth picture) is the age when they were first commissioned midshipman¹, while the number below is the year of their commission¹. Farragut was commissioned in 1810 (aged 9), Lee was commissioned in 1825 (aged 13), Dahlgren was commissioned in 1826 (aged 17).

(1— except for Deedee — the year 1823 was more the year when he first sailed with his father in the Navy (he was probably rated boy seaman at this point). Porter was properly commissioned midshipman in the US Navy only in 1829, aged 16)

#interesting when you put them all together like this #dolph was the second oldest but joined the last among the four #as for deedee's year it's kinda fuzzy actually... #1823 was the year he joined his father in the navy #but he was only properly comissioned midshipman in 1829 #(it was a long story honestly lmao) #drawing #original art #manga #pen and ink #traditional art #fountain pen #fan art #david farragut #david glasgow farragut #john a dahlgren #john dahlgren #samuel phillips lee #david dixon porter #midshipman monday #american history #american civil war #maritime history