A flagship

Shivver me timbers lassies, there is a big bottomed lady of the lines if ever I saw one, not a Spanish Hind full of new world gold amazingly, but a tea clipper selling lots of tea as coffee in far-flung ports like Dublin, and adding in their own share of sheep's dung for flavouring in Russian taverns. Yes the USS Macdonald of the line is no Lexington, that's for sure, but boy does she move fast around the globe, but always selling tea as coffee. Learnt nothing from the buddha or his buddhist monks at how to make red robe tea, but maybe tea there at home in China is too expensive for her. Captained by a loose rag-bag assortment of sailor boys, press-ganged from Russian ports, she stays afloat by laying up for days at ports like L'eau vive in Switzerland. Money her only downfall - shed-loads of it and which she shells out to all the sailor boys of the French cinque ports.