Well shiver me timbers

Well lads and lassies out on the high seas this week, there is a calm sea out there on the Tyrrhenian Sea and we is becalmed my beauties off the straits of Messina and Calabria - the very place where the good ship HMS Germaine was lost some years ago along with all her virtuous cargo. Still that does not stop the odd approach of some old tugboats of the French napoleonic line, the SS Lynchmob and the SS Nadine, two corvettes of the line in France who sometimes cruise this way. Rarely it has to be admitted since they have nothing in common with the Romans and the Latium Italicans, and they have no time for the pomp of such places being simply liveried like a very wooden galleon of Columbus - where their captains stay when they are in Rome. Oh yes tow old dirty tugboats - mutton dressed as lamb.