USS Duang

 Somewhere out there in the South Seas, a USS warship is readying her crew for some action, the USS Duang, as the French Napoleonic corvettes and frigates continue their murderous kidnapping campaign without let up in those seas .... .. 

MV Warcraft

Of course one of the problems with Venerabile French warships and their corvettes and frigates is the inordinate amount of time they spend on the gaming boards of the high seas, messing around with the teenage sector, press-ganging young people into their revolutionary navy, promoting Iranian backed revolutionary guards of the old imperial kind, acquiring oil barrels and minions, the huge over stuffed kind of the stuffed shirt type, and generally being a payne in the neck to deal with, putting out to sea then and harassing the young day trippers and barges of the Thames and other rivers too like the noble Severn, dreadful lot, and all because they wish to support the Waterloo side of their campaigns, when Waterloo is eventually decided upon, methinks. Meanwhile the Iberian peninsular campaign is going to plan. Even their old Napoleon figure, sitting astride his white Magenta warhorse like a tin pot god, is not that keen on an 1815 chiefly because he has lost a few battles now in that campaign to the Allies in Lisbon fresh from their landings.

HMS Warwick III

Sad to say the enemies of all good UK religion are back in action, this time as the MV Warcraft and following escort ships in the Channel flying the pirate flags of the old Mi3 and trying to get under the radar of our own brave Royal Navy, firing on defenceless little civilian day tripper boats like the HMS Johnnies and generally being a nuisance on the high seas, a pain to have to go after and correct.

HMS Crossfire

One of the problems of the northern fleets of the RN in the Norwegian Sea is that from time to time, the seductions of the simplicity of the French Revolution of 1789 bewitches grey mediocre Sixth Form minds of ships like the HMS Guardian, and so too one example of a ship that went over to the pirates was the HMS Solihull who was seduced into error by the Austrian captains speaking poor low grade German with a comediac accent if they only knew, and these were the captains of the SS Schonheit, the SS Weg, the SS Gottweig the old problem again, the SS Legion under Capt Mariana, the SS Kristoffs and the SS Linz, since those captains practised a low grade mission on the high seas, stealing in to the slutshaming kind of port near the Adriatic from time to time, so the Captainess of the SS Solihull did not think her trips away from her HMS Hubby went observed, but she was eventually caught down south on the south coast plying her new trade with a new ship the SS San Riccardo Pampuri, a much pampered ship of the French line led by the vieni vieni Duke of Anjou. She was caught eventually by the great and brave ships of the RN, the HMS Baddesley, the HMS Knoxall, and the HMS Coombe while on intercept duty in the Red Sea, herself heavily laid low by her enduring weakness for Scarlet Fever, caught red handed, finger in the till, a brave girl but a traitor to the Austrians. Traitors do occur.

Pirates ahoy

One of the long term duties of the Royal Navy is the occupation and boarding of slavery ships crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean, and despite the official values of the Revolution in Paris in 1789, the Napoleonic ships still do indulge in slavery and the transporting of slaves, some of them quite young, as young as 14, as they like to invoke the Codex to justify their actions and their trades, since the Codex establishes an age of consent for youngsters at 14, and so the RN intercepts ships like the SS Jamaica, the SS Barbados, and the SS Gateshead from time to time, plus even the SS Port Royale, and there forces the pirate captains to disembark their slaves on the islands there, including Epcon island near the old harbour for Israeli ships. 

HMS Warwick

Napoleonic ships of the line such as the SS Sherington and the SS Haffner like to hide down south in the waters of the Sandwich Islands and South Georgia, hunting the SS Scharnhorst and the SS Tipper, hoping thereby that they will evade a call up for duty, though increasingly Russian tallships have committed to the cause and are proposing a slow process and yet a systematic process of denazifying the shipping lanes of Napoleon's traffic on the high seas, especially in the South Atlantic and the Tierra del Fuego circlet of volcano friendly islands around the Beagle Islands, very appropriately, where much hunting of the USS Fox takes place still. The Russians do not like tyrants and Napoleon is one of those.

SS Brazilia

Despite the best of intentions, to keep the battles of the Napoleonic Wars around European waters and Mediterranean Seas, every so often the fight would spill over into the South Atlantic, and so the French frigate the SS Burkha would make a bee-line for the southern waters of Galapagos and Beagle and then pursue our own Royal Navy and Allied ships around the Falkland Islands, while the Brazilian captain of the SS Burkha used to boast that he had exchanged an ep ring for a matrimonial ring in his own day when his clubhouse was raided by Portuguese squaddies looking to press-gang in those summer days of summer heat. The other French ships of their lines, the Hudson, the Sherrington, the Fairhouse, the Coughlin, the Sharks, the O'Loughlin, the Marsden, the Egon Ronay, the Anders, the Antonio, the Farrellaid, the Stoneham, the McDaid, the Shaughnessy, their Carola-Savoranola, all these and others shifted gear then and sailed to the South Atlantic where the action was keener, the pickings richer, linking up with other Brazilian corvettes seeking to outflank and derazz the RN fleet down there about Port Stanley. Messy business showing how ambitious those Brazilian rogue pirates flying the Black Pearl quite officially were in fact if not de iure. Ambition - the real motive for the later assaults on Port Royale in the Caribbean at Jamaica on a famous island.