Royal Navy - Blog Posts
For the first question,After abolishing the slave trade in 1808, Britain spent 62 years hunting down slave ships in the Atlantic.
The Terror Rewatch: episode 3. Does anyone know anything about why they still set Lieut. Gore's place at the wardroom table?
Just seems absolutely peculiar to me that they're setting his place out at the table (nice china & silverware and all) when he's died.
Terror rewatch: ep 2. Can't stop thinking about the scene where (fake) Hickey's caulking the captain's seat of ease then he & Crozier have a drink. I think he gives himself away *twice*. Firstly he uses a slur (or at least, a rude word) for Irish *catholics* about himself & by extension Crozier. Yes, Crozier was Irish & suffered prejudice from that, but he was Church of Ireland/Protestant! Unsure if (real) Hickey was Catholic or not, but being from Limerick, he certainly wouldn't use that word of himself (slur reclamation wasn't a thing yet, yo!). Secondly, when they toast -- Hickey's clearly never heard of/is unsure of why Crozier toasts "Ourselves, then" (as, he later says, a bad joke). It's because of this (screenshot from wiki attached)
The Royal Navy do seated toasts every day at wardroom dinners -- Crozier asks what day it is, it's Wednesday, then says "Ourselves, then" because that's Wednesday's toast! Hickey (though not an officer) should be familiar with this already, but he's *not* - because he's an impostor! I think Crozier's suspicious of him from this point on, because of both these reveals, but is too depressed/alcoholic/distracted to actually *do* anything about it.
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 Surviving ships of D-day: 1) Battleship U.S.S. Texas (BB-35) berthed in La Porte, TX 2) Light Cruiser HMS Belfast berthed in London, UK 3) S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien berthed in San Francisco, CA 4) U.S.S. Laffey (DD-724) berthed in Mt. Pleasant, SC.
