despatches

Note from the Editor: Ooops. So sorry it's been so long since posting Despatches!

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:
From

hmsacasta_feed: Sailor's Kit
From

hmsacasta_feed: Ill tidings from the North American Station

Of historical interest:

justincase posts Interesting Stuff

justincase posts To Lord Nelson
From

hmsacasta_feed: Trafalgar and the Death of Nelson 1805
From

hmsacasta_feed: A review of The Adventures of John Wetherell
From

hmsacasta_feed: Surgery on the High Seas

Miscellany and meta:

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read is reading Blue at the Mizzen"> Chapter One

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sharpiefan

Note from the Editor:

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

justincase: The Real Sir Joseph

sharpiefan: The untold story of HMS Victory

Miscellany and meta:

austenblog: Photos from Love and Friendship shooting

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read: Letter of Marque Chapter Two - comments still welcome

alltoseek: Friendship comment!fics/Art fests

Rec of the Week:
CISMAS HMS Colossus wreck project

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sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: HMS Acasta is running its Press Gang Week this week, so expect a lot of different items to do with aspects of the press gang.

Fanfic:
The Lucky Hand by

binz and

sidhebeingbrandHornblower; NC-17; Horatio Hornblower/Edward Pellew, implied Horatio Hornblower/William Bush, implied Edward Pellew/Susan Pellew,; During the Peace of Amiens, a chance meeting between Pellew and his favourite old lieutenant gets a little… intense.

Son et Lumière:
From

hmsacasta_feed: Horrible Histories: Join the Royal Navy
From

hmsacasta_feed: The Doctor and the Press-Gang
From

hmsacasta_feed: A bug-a-Boo to Frighten John Bull
From

hmsacasta_feed: Here's the Tender Coming
From

hmsacasta_feed: Wanted: Spirited Young Men
From

hmsacasta_feed: The Press Gang: Music Video

Of historical interest:
From

hmsacasta_feed: The Press Gang: Naval Recruitment
From

hmsacasta_feed: How Do I Avoid the Press-Gang?

Miscellany and meta:
From

austenblog: Jane Austen's ring campaign now accepting online donations

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read will be reading Desolation Island, Chapter Six this weekend

Rec of the Week:
Blue Devils by

Diane_C; M&C; G; Jack, Stephen, Killick; Stephen and Killick care for Jack, who is injured and blue after an action.

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Current Mood: determined

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: Short issue this week! Hope you've all had a good week?

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:
From

hmsacasta_feed: Fort Meigs 200th
From

hmsacasta_feed: Fort Meigs part 2
From

hmsacasta_feed: Havre de Grace 200th

dreamboatdreamer70 posts BEAR with me
From

hmsacasta_feed: Images of Life at Sea 21

Of historical interest:

Miscellany and meta:

molly_joyful posts Horatio Nelson got a makeover

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read: Introductions post

madc_read will be reading The Mauritius Command: Chapter 1 this weekend

Rec of the Week: A fanvid from

latin_cat this week: Master & Commander: High School Never Ends

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Current Mood: cheerful

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: this edition starts with an embarrassed apology. It's Trafalgar Day in three days' time and I had intended to run a Trafalgar Day Fanworks Challenge this year, to celebrate. And guess what I haven't left enough time to do?! I'll remember next year, though. How has your week been?

Fanfic:
It Has Been Many Weary Months (A multi-media fanwork) by

jessamygriffith; AU Sherlock fic set in 1812; 15 for implied slash; Sherlock/John (implied); In the summer of the year 1812 at the beginning of the war between England and America, a Lieutenant S. Holmes of His Majesty's Royal Navy, banished by his superiors to Upper Canada for insubordination, wrote a personal letter to his friend and companion Doctor St-J. H. Watson. He enclosed this letter in a package with several other objects intended to be sent to the Doctor via the next packet ship.

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

dreamboatdreamer70 posts about Nautical Tattoos

esteven posts about Collingwood and the Irish Amazonian Corps

Miscellany and meta:

sharpiefan posts Websailing, a link to the website of HMS Acasta, a naval re-enactment group

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read will be reading Chapter Two of Post Captain this weekend.

Rec of the Week: Jack's Sharpe Wit by

alltoseek (

alltoseek); G; Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Richard Sharpe; For a prompt on perfect_duet's 2011 Aubreyad Kink Meme: Richard Sharpe repeats Harper's "violins are too fiddly for me" joke to Jack Aubrey (or within his hearing)

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sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: Oops. Got distracted yesterday packing, hence no Despatches. This is coming to you chez

le_russe_satan. Hope you've all had a good week! Again, this is a short edition. Please keep your AoS posts coming!

Fanfic:
Sharpe's Marines, Interlude: Joking Apart by

sharpiefan; Sharpe; U; Sharpe, original characters; What did Sharpe and the Marines of HMS Pucelle really make of each other?

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

sharpiefan posts Why the War of 1812 Still Mattera

le_russe_satan posts The British Cabinet of the Peninsular War Period
From

redcoatbob: So You've Never Seen a Weevil

Miscellany and meta:

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read will be reading Chapter Three of 21 this weekend

Rec of the Week:
On The Identification of Weeds by

feroxargentea; Stephen Maturin, the Aubrey family; G; Takes place after The Mauritius Command, but supposing that that campaign went rather differently.

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Current Mood: embarrassed

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor:
This was very nearly going to be either a day early or a day late. But it's neither, although it's a short issue. :D Hope you've all had a good week.

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

hm_jollies:

sharpiefan posts Various notes and excerpts

hm_jollies:

wayward_shadows posts Duties aboard ship

Miscellany and meta:

wayward_shadows posts HMS Victory sculpture

vanilla_elf informs us that the Buxom Strumpet is a ship! Whee!

vanilla_elf posts about Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists!

Communities and challenges:

perfect_duet:

esteven posts Sailors' flowery unmentionables and unauthorised trousers

mandc_read will be reading Chapter Two of Blue at the Mizzen this weekend

Rec of the Week:
Scheming by

farothiel; Sharpe; PG-13; Arthur Wellesley/Richard Sharpe; Colonel Wellesley takes a stroll amongst the army's picketed horses the night Sharpe is set up for a flogging..

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Current Mood: silly

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: Wow, our half-century!! Hope you've had a good week, guys!

Fanfic:
Divided we Fall, United we Stand by

sharpiefan; Hornblower; PG; Hornblower, Bush, Kennedy, Sawyer, Wellard, OMCs; The events aboard His Majesty's Ship Renown, as seen by one of the Marines.
Tigers at Night Part Ia by

marashar; StC/Torchwood crossover, Gen; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness
Tigers at Night Part Ib by

marashar, StC/torchwood crossover; gen; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness
Tigers at Night Part Ic by

marashar; StC/Torchwood crossover; Gen; Vickery; Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness
Tigers at Night Part Id by

marashar; StC/Torchwood crossover; Gen; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness
Tigers at Night Part IIa by

marashar; StC/Torchwood crossover; Gen; Vickery, Torrington, Cotton, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness
Discordancy by

rosedark; Jane Austen's Emma; PG-13; Emma Woodhouse/Jane Fairfax/George Knightley; It’s like a broken clock she cannot set aright, somehow both too fast and too slow; or the draft from a carelessly opened door that she cannot place, sighing its sobering chill into even the gayest of parlours. And it is at its strongest, perhaps, whenever she chances to hear Miss Fairfax play.

Son et Lumière:

mswyrr: Garrow's Law icons

Of historical interest:

sharpiefan posts Those Forgotten Heroes: The Royal Marines in the Age of Nelson

sharpiefan posts about Timekeeping at Sea

wayward_shadows posts about a Navy officers' book

Miscellany and meta:

feroxarengtea posts The True Story of Master and Commander on telly

esteven posts HMS Surprise radio play on repeat

tree_and_leaf reminds us about the Cochrane Exhibition in Edinburgh

Communities and challenges:

anything_aos is a new DW version of

anything_aos, with posts imported from the LJ original

esteven:

mandc_read will be beginning Hundred Days this weekend

Rec of the Week:
Rock and Tempest, Fire and Foe by

idler_1814; Hornblower; Gen; Bush; Morning, October 21, 1805, off Cape Trafalgar. Aboard Temeraire, William Bush and his men can only wait as they inch toward the Combined Fleet.

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Current Mood: determined

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor: It's Trafalgar Day! How are you celebrating it - if 'celebrating' is the right word. How are you paying tribute to the Immortal Memory and the sacrifice of so many in, probably, the most famous Naval battle of all time? No fic this week, I'm afraid.

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

sharpiefan posts about Trafalgar Day

latin_cat posts Trafalgar Day 2011

oldcuddy_feed posts Trafalgar Day: A Toast

patches_the_shipcat posts Of the 50th Regiment of Foot, of the 5/60th Rifles and sometimes of the enemy itself

Miscellany and meta:

vanilla_elf posts How Gillette and Groves almost escaped to Mexico

sharpiefan posts about rumours of more Sharpe onscreen

janeaustenblog_feed posts More movies!

sharpiefan posts about A Star to Steer Her By: A Masterclass in the Maritime Novel at the NMM in November

Communities and challenges:

showthecolours is hosting a Kink Meme: Round Three

Rec of the Week:
A Letter Full of News by

sphinxvictorian; Persuasion; Gen; Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Admiral Croft, Sophia Croft From the correspondence of Mrs. George Croft, newly edited and printed by the author at the permission of the lady's descendants.

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Current Mood: nostalgic

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor:
It's another short one! (I really need to kick my muse into touch, apparently!) Hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Extract from the Guidebook to Fallbrooke House by

sharpiefan; Show the Colours; U; Description of the house

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

vanilla_elf posts about 18th Century Paper Doll Clothes

esteven posts about a Cochrane Exhibition in Edinburgh

Miscellany and meta:

vanilla_elf asks Will Garrow's Law return in November? It better!

vanilla_elf posts Finally! Official news from the BBC on Garrow's Law 3

Communities and challenges:

showthecolours is running an anonymous kink meme

Rec of the Week:
The Dark of the Night by

gayalondiel; Hornblower; PG; Hornblower/Kennedy; Missing scene from "The Duchess and the Devil": after his failed suicide attempt, Archie wakes in the night and ponders his situation and Horatio's reaction.

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Current Mood: contemplative

sharpiefan

Note from the Editor:
Again, a short one. And again, I can't get back to entries posted before the 21st August, so if I haven't linked to your entry, check the date on it - please comment to this post with a link and I'll put it in for you. Hope everyone's had a good fortnight (or however long it's been!)

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

sharpiefan informs us of a lecture at the National Army Museum: Jane Austen and the Army

ageofsail_feed posts More on splinters

Miscellany and meta:

sharpiefan posts Humbugged by God: some comments on Waterloo

Communities and challenges:

vanilla_elf informs us of a norrington fic fest

mandc_read is reading Chapter Eight of The Commodore

Rec of the Week: Unusually for this slot, this issue's rec is for a piece of artwork. Recommended by

latin_cat, it's from the Theban Band website, and is very NSFW. You have been warned!! Hornblower/Bush

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Current Mood: peaceful

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