Ahoy there ships of the line

Ahoy there, well here we are sailing the seven seas down under not far from the islands of Tasmania where me old mate is, Capt Eric on board the HMS Livingstone, and here we have run into two beautiful ships, the SS Conry and the SS Caustic, two french vessels that have been working together for some time down here in the Antipodes chiefly to unseat Crown interests. Nice frigates both, and it seems a shame to have to sink them both, but they were active all over the old Victory-like warship the HMS Seagull and pummelled her shore and aft till she was much reduced in the water, thoug hshe gave a jolly good account of herself. The Seagull though is not good at confronting revolutionary dogma and the gendarmarie that always accompanies the French in their subterfuges, chiefly from Napoleon, who is still deceiving British shipmen. Arrogant lot the French though, they always assume they have the last laugh and the last cannonball, but they neglect the finer arts of war and they spend too much time in Chinese ports, drinking themselves silly on martyrs's days come the 1st of December, but NB surrounded by lots of Chinese junks. Chinese failings for the most part. Can't see the future.