Well shivver me timbers

Well there shipmates, it seems that the old tug, the MV Crowmack has pulled out of the French ports of Brest and is heading out in the grey Russian Atlantic to rendezvous with a crowd of Frenchies in their corvettes, including the MV Sherington, a two tonner that likes firing everywhere with lots of loose cannon on deck, the MV Hudson, an old warhorse that loves the sound of her own artillery and gunpowder going off, and the MV Wincanton from ashore at Doylieville who just loves. People mostly. As long as they buy into that infernal 1789 revolution that keeps going off around Europe like some lunetune Marshall Ney. oh and there is the MV De Buicklear O'Donnell, the famous ship built in Ireland but working against the Anglo-Irish Empire of Wellington for the lunatic corporal from Corsica and GBH. So we might deploy the HMS Chestleton against this little coterie of coquettes from Cocove soon, and see what happens to their bright napoleonic smiles on their french faces. Or is it?

Aha

Ahoy there maties. Captain on the bridge. Whistleblowers in town, that old sea-dog Captain Jean d'arc de Chastelain is now back in British waters, roving around, firing off his gun at small turrets and towns, and generally running amok and ravaging little inlets on the coastline. A payne in the neck. One of Napoleon's Chompollions if not champignons. Which is where he should be - stewed in a risotto for his paynes. A right charlie we have as our admiral this week - cannot find this scheming miscreant and olde worlde artefact. A dreadful lot, the french.