Aha me hearties

Ahoy there shipmates. Tis a black day for the consciences of those evil French captains of those French corvettes over there. They have put into harbour at Brest and found lots of scurvy and legionnaire's disease on board the SS Hudson Huron, the SS Milner Bird, the SS Dingley Tilney, and the Murfax O'Cuivehan, while the dirty old tug and steamer, the French SS Chestleton is still belching out its black smoke all over the islands to the north at Guernsey. Dreadful business all this disease at the port au prince on the SS MV Venerabile QV - a russian corvette in port at the old stopover for the French generals, the St Malo. Anyway we shall head out to the grey Atlantic soon.

Aha Robinson Crusoe

Well ye gads men, shivver me timbers, we have alighted by a desert island in the middle of the ocean not far from the Maldives, and there facing us are two old hasbeens waving their arms and asking for food and freshwater. Poor buggers. Chestleton Brigadier and his batman and his fag Nickelarse Fickleby, both old seadogs from the wreck of a big old glorified tug called the HMS Venerabile, so they say. The captain has gone through his old sea logs and discovered that no such ship ever appeared in battle for the Royal Navy. Maybe a russian man o'war possibly that puts in to these southern harbours for the young girls and some sailor relief. Shivver me timbers, tis two old seadogs from Russia. Special recruits from their university days. And very nicely done, on Crispian's Day too. Still under orders probably - we shall line them up and shoot them. A whole crowd of them slipped out from a mutinous ship in the East India Company once I do recall. Capt Horatio.