Truth is

Truth is .... out here on the high water markers of the Western Clyde and the Scottish Seas it is not so easy to tell. Old greybeard of the Grey Wolf is around somewhere too up here near the Icelandic coastlines and there are one or two French ships too around. Russian cargo vessels carrying silver in the main is what the old greybeard likes to raid as one of the older sort of pirate he has much to quarry on russian ships out of Murmansk on their runs to Rekjavicar and Greenland and St George's Newfoundland. The Hanseatic League of ports have approached us to go look out for this character on our sealanes but he is very alussive if not elusive and has painted his ship in grey so as to be invisible in the usual fogs up here in the northern silver seas of mercurio. Not easy spotting this one - very hanseatic himself - and drinks alot of vodka and rum. Still we shall endeavour to find him for the old Tsar Vladimir's sake. And sned him and his crew back to Port Royale with his tail between his legs.

Anyway

Anyway that was Scotland. Nice harbours and nice women but they all speak gaelic now on these shores so God knows what they are saying anymore. So we have stocked up with supplies, lemons and limes and oranges and fresh water, and we are now setting sail for the high seas to go look for pirates like old blackbeard himself down around Jamaica on the other side of the Azores. Landfall in the azores or the canaries or madeira maybe by tea time next sunday evening. We shall see. Old blackbeard of New Maulem in Surrey is a bit of a wimp when it comes to it, but we shall face him and confront him about the black gold he has been stealing off Galloway Point with his trusted steed Capt Black Eyed P of the Black Eagle and his side-kick Capt Jake Sparrow of the Black Pert from the coastal resorts of Port Royale and Kingstown and Burkestowne this last year nr where the old Lusitania went down with all hands on deck. 

Gosh quite nice up here

Scotland and its many sea lochs are so lovely. It is so nice to sail around the coastal sights and towns via Oban and Tarbert and put in to old inns and coaching houses. Ah yes, nice to be on this side of the fiery Atlantic. I see the SS Neptune has been blasting away at anything that moves with a union jack on it - obviously a French revolutionary that hates anything coronal, but maybe this lady doth protest too much, and is keen to come over to the crown that she wants to blow apart. It happens like this to old sea captains - they yearn for a knighthood like old Capt Philby of the MV Sandyeel and Capt MacClean of the MV Corbeille du pain and then Capt Burgess of the SS Remington Steele - from the old supply French fleets of our Napoleon's historical trawlers that occasionally hang around the HMS Londinium or the many decked HMS Trinovantium. Life in a Republic can become quite tedious when there are no real benefits and no reward mechanisms except next year's revolution and nother guillotine to be built in French Canada or the colonies. Yes the Neptune is quite bored with revolution. Quite bored even with boredom and always feigning her death.

The gales the gales

The gales of the seventh sea are playing up at the moment, so it is everyman to the rigging. The boys inthe crow's nests above are struggling frantically, and the whole ship is shuddering under the strain. The seventh gale in seven days on the seventh sea, not far from the North West Passage. The captain too is nort looking too good, and his niece is down below, turning a whiter shade of pale, if not green, like the sea up here. We shall make for Hudson Bay and see if there is some safe passage to the St Lawrence River. All well on board and nobody lost over the side so far. The St Lawrence River is a good stretch but if we are friendly to the Hurons we might survive.

Et alors

Well this is a surprise. It appears we have found one of the rebel French piracy ships captained by none other than Capt Greybeard himself, known sometime in an alias as Capitaine Rolfe Harrison, the French pirate who once saved the life of Napoleon during a mutiny at sea, after Napoleon had ordered a return to Marseilles. This ship, the SS Neptune, or sometimes called the Grey Wolf, has been routing up and down the coastlines of the Bahamas for some time. We caught her off the coast of Bermuda not far from the colonial coast of New Spain or les ameriques. Herewith a picture of the Greybeard himself, Capitaine Dan Day Lewis in his real identity. Pirates are easily dealt with, usually by hanging, but Greybeard assures us that he is really an enemy of Napoleon the Great. The Repulse over and out.