Captain Marvel #50 - "Marvelous" (2023)
written by Kelly Thompson
art by Javier Pina, David Lopez, & Yen Nitro
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They should stop having sad soggy pathetic boat men tournaments and start having Smug Obnoxious Jerk Boat Man tournaments. I nominate all of Captain Marryat's protagonist characters and also Marryat himself.
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A code of signals for use aboard merchant vessels, published with the permission of Capt. Marryat, published by J.M. Richardson, 1844
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As the night advanced, so did the wind increase and the sea rise; lightning darted through the dense clouds, and for a moment we could scan the horizon. Everything was threatening; yet our boat, with the wind about two points free, rushed gallantly along, rising on the waves like a sea-bird, and sinking into the hollow of the waters as if she had no fear of any attempt on their part to overwhelm her.
— Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack
Storm at Sea, French School, 18th century (Art UK)
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The Arbours and other Obscurities
The Arbours and other Obscurities
On the anniversary box set of the film Valley Of The Dolls is a bonus documentary about Jacqueline Suzanne & her personal promotion for the book & film. One of things she did was commission a title song for the film, which never got used, much to her disappointment. It was performed by The Arbors. I tracked it down on The Very Best of The Arbors. Think The…
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putterings, 256-254
dance of the wreck apophony eye
blue cap and pale sleeves certainly not chairs
the ball as it fell when the rain came, Spain
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puutterings | their index | these derivations | 20230203
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when the rain came
They had hardly sat down to table, when the rain came puttering down on the roof, and in a quarter of an hour the storm was as violent, and the thunder and lightning as terrific as on the day before. All the out-door labour was again suspended...
ex Robinson Ready Or the Wreck of the Pacific : Written for young people by Captain Marryat. Für die deutsche Jugend mit belehrenden Noten und einem Wörteruche versehen [provided with instructional notes and dictionary for German youth]. (Leipzig, Baumgärtner’s Buchhandlung, 1844) : 138 : link
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“puttering” for “pattering” in Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for Young People. By Captain Marryat. vol. 2 (of 3), (London, 1842) : 16 : link (hathitrust)
This 1842 edition contains wood engravings, some marked “DICKES.DEL” (William Dickes, 1850-92), see BM bio : link and (or) “R BRANSTON.SP” (Robert Branston, 1803?-77), BM : link
catalogue record for this edition (Michigan copy) : link
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Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) — wikipedia — authored :
a signal code, several editions, the third in 1820 : A Code of signals for the use of Vessels employed in the merchant service; Including a cypher for secret correspondence : link (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek),
nautical and children’s fiction, and even (uncertainly)
The Floral Telegraph; or Affection’s Signals, By the Late Captain Marryatt [sic], R.N. (London, 1850?) : link
But I digress.
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i can only do light reading at the moment because of my light concussion and decided to finally read the phantom ship as my partner has been urging me to do for at least a year. even though it is clearly more appropriate for a child, i was touched by the fate of Amine who suffered a witch burning at the hands of the catholic church after being caught performing a ritual from her mothers faith. the book very clearly urges an open philosophy of religion, concerned about the god of the good, who can take many forms, albeit does not seem to take the form of organised religion as the main priest of the story in the end ressort to putting his zeal before the kindness he knows in his heart that Amine has shown him. it even put the formulation of this philosophy in the mouth of Amine instead of her husband, as custom would have it.
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Buddha's Foot
Date
18th C–early 19th C
Medium
stone, glass, bitumen & gold
donated by Captain Frederick Marryat, 1826
The British Museum
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The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
In 1936 Captain Hubert C. Provand was taking photos of the picturesque Raynham Hall, a country house in Norfolk, England, when he snapped this picture.
As Provand was setting up the shot, his assistant called out for the photo to be taken ‘now’, as something was descending the staircase. The result is this world famous ghost photo, said to be that of Lady Dorothy Walpole.
September 19, 1936: Photographer, Captain Hubert C Provand and his assistant, Indre Shira were taking pictures of Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England for the December issue of ‘Country Life’ Magazine.
Little did they know that on this day they would capture the ghost that has said to be haunting the old country house since the mid 1800’s.
The ghost is better known as the ‘Brown Lady’, as the spectre has been described as wearing a brown silk brocade dress.
It is believed that the Brown Lady is the spirit of Lady Dorothy Walpole, who died at Raynham Hall in 1726 from Smallpox, after a long incarceration within the houses walls.
Dorothy Walpole was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, who was considered to be the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (serving 1721 to 1742 which would also make him the longest serving Prime Minister). Dorothy was Charles Townsend’s second wife, Charles having served as the secretary of state for ten years.
It is said that Dorothy had an affair with the 1st Duke of Wharton, Philip Wharton (yes all these upper class families make for quite complex reading and research), and her husband, Sir Walpole did not take too kindly to that, and had Dorothy locked in the upper floor rooms of their home – Raynham Hall.
Another story states that Dorothy was entrapped by the Countess of Wharton, never to leave the house… not even to see her children. It is said she returns to find, and finally be reunited with her children. A sad tale indeed!
Either way Lady Dorothy Walpole died of Smallpox 29th March 1726 aged forty.
The Brown Lady aka (possibly) Lady Dorothy Walpole has been seen on a number of occasions since her death, with the first recorded sighting being in 1835 after a Christmas party. Several guests had seen the ghost as they went up to their bedrooms for the evening, one describing it as having a glowing face but with empty eye sockets.
Captain Marryat (a gentleman who wrote novels set out at sea) retired to his room one night, and had remarked to two others he met on the way that he was carrying a gun as protection against the Brown Lady. It was at this point the apparition appeared and ‘diabolically’ grinned at the captain as she passed by him.
The captain took two shots, both passing straight through the apparition, to embed in the door and door frame beyond.
Many other people have witnessed the Brown Lady on the main staircase and in the bedrooms. Generally these sightings occur when heading to bed, or waking up in the middle of the night to find her standing in their rooms.
The ghost has also been seen right before tragic events and deaths that affect the Townsend Family. One evening, during a dinner party, many guests had seen the apparition, complete with her brown dress, walking through the crowd. The Spectre did not seem to recognize anyone and soon disappeared. The next morning, news of the death of George Walpole reached the group at the estate, George had died at about the same time the Brown Lady has been seen.
On the fateful day the photo was taken, Captain Hubert C Provand and his assistant Indre Shira had set up the camera at the foot of the main staircase, with Provand under the protective cloth at the back of the camera. They had already taken one photo and Provand was re framing for another shot. Shira suddenly called out to Provand to take another shot and at this Provand removed the lens cover and made the exposure.
Shira had seen the figure of a lady descend the staircase when he called for the photo to be taken. Upon development, the image did indeed show a spectral figure on the staircase; The Brown Lady had been captured at last!
The picture was published in Country Life magazine December 16th 1936, along with the accounts of Provand and Shira.
Renowned paranormal investigator Harry Price interviewed the two men and stated he could not find a flaw in their story, as the negative also showed the figure. With the exception of the two men lying, he could not see how the image could be anything but that of the ghost in question.
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It’s Frederick Marryat’s birthday very soon (10 July 1792), and I’ve been thinking a lot about the effect he’s had on my life: and just what is the nature of my fascination with this man. I think a huge part of being interested in Marryat is being drawn to the man himself, not just his stories and travel writing. You have to have some kind of personal investment in this bitchy, lecherous, sarcastic, self-righteous, frequently infuriating and problematic man; you have to care about him on some level. He feels extremely present in his writing.
I think Virginia Woolf expressed it well when she wrote in her essay on Marryat, “The Captain’s Death Bed”:
Often in a shallow book, when we wake, we wake to nothing at all; but here when we wake, we wake to the presence of a personage—a retired naval officer with an active mind and a caustic tongue, who as he trundles his wife and family across the Continent in the year 1835 is forced to give expression to his opinions in a diary.
Sometimes I wonder about what Marryat would think of me as his reader. In response to criticism in Fraser’s Magazine, Marryat wrote a long letter defending his work in cheap weekly newspapers which would be read by the lower classes (reproduced in The Life and Letters of Captain Frederick Marryat, edited by his daughter Florence Marryat). He starts out strong, attacking elitist attitudes about literature, and then shows his ass with smug pronouncements about how he’s writing wholesome fare to educate the lower classes, unlike trashy weeklies filled with “immorality and crime” that also teach people to criticize the government or read Chartists! (Marryat was a complex person whose views can’t be pinned down with modern political labels, but he wasn’t very progressive, not even in his own time.)
Marryat was my introduction to the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, which have become major interests, he was my first real exposure to Regency-period fashion and manners, and he has increased my general nautical knowledge a hundredfold. I feel a kinship with him across time and space as he offers his opinions on the world of the 1830s and 40s, a bit jaded in middle age but still keenly observant and very confident in his opinions.
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Book illustration for Mr. Midshipman Easy written by Captain Frederick Marryat
"Midshipman Easy, Page 173 - "Oh Mr. Easy, Please Forgive Us". by unknown
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It is impossible to contemplate any steam-engine, without feeling wonder and admiration at the ingenuity of man; but this feeling is raised to a degree of awe when you look at a locomotive engine—there is such enormous power compressed into so small a space—I never can divest myself of the idea that it is possessed of vitality—that it is a living as well as a moving being—and that idea, joined with its immense power, conjures up in my mind that it is some spitting, fizzing, terrific demon, who, if he could escape control, would be ready and happy to drag us by thousands to destruction.
— Frederick Marryat, "Diary on the Continent" (Olla Podrida)
Inauguration du premier chemin de fer en Belgique or Départ de la Flèche le 5 mai 1835 by Jan Antoon Neuhuys, 1885. An artistic recreation of the new Belgian rail lines of 1835 that Marryat witnessed on his continental tour.
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The Naval Officer Frank Mildmay
"I was now in my twenty-second year; my figure was decidedly of a handsome cast; my face, what I knew most women admired. My personal advantages were heightened by the utmost attention to dress; the society of the fair Arcadians had very much polished my manners, and I had no more of the professional roughness of the sea, than what, like the crust of the port wine, gave an agreeable flavour; my countenance was as open and as ingenuous as my heart was deceitful and desperately wicked."
-- Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay, or The Naval Officer
generated from the text prompt
"young proud handsome arrogant smirking Royal Navy naval officer"
and image prompts of:
the naval novellist captain frederick marryat
and a picture of ioan gruffudd as hornblower
using the neural network AI midjourney
with a few edits and tweaks post-generation
with thanks and inspiration to @marryat92
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A Sailor's Life at Sea (Resources)
It has rather occurred to me that some of our sailors and observers may not be so well versed in the life on board a naval Man o' War, and so I shall reserve this post for the collation of links and resources that may prove useful in the upcoming weeks!
I would also like to... gently is not such the term for it, but to bring your attention to the deadline of the first Action Report's submission to tomorrow at Monday 20th of July GMT 12am / GMT+10 10am. I do promise to be far less bothersome in the following weeks, but as you can imagine, this being our very first report, there is no small amount of worry and excitement on my behalf!
But yes, let us proceed. I shall be citing the works of @ltwilliammowett, a fantastic naval history web log dedicated to charting the unknown waters of history. Reading these are by no means required, but it may enrich your understanding of the world of this game - but of course, you do not need to be entirely accurate, for this is but a game!
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Masterlists
Here is a masterlist of various posts about a sailor's life in general
A masterlist of posts about sailors' superstitions
And a masterlist about medicine in the age of sail
The various crafts and handiworks associated with the sea
Ranks or people on board
Naval slang
Posts
A day aboard a man of war
Weekly duties aboard a man of war
A post about the etiquette in the wardroom, where the commissioned officers and the wardroom warrant officers ate and socialised
Games played on board
Punishments
Combat between Men o' War
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Other Links
Another blog I heartily recommend is @marryat92 for excerpts from the works of Captain Frederick Marryat, a naval captain who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and wrote novels inspired by his experiences! These give quite a good impression of the life and times of the world that Shipshape is set in, as accompanied by quite suitable art
This is a glossary of Age of Sail terminology
This is a fansite for Age of Sail fiction with some information and resources
Living Conditions in the 19th Century U.S. Navy
If one would like to peruse some books, I also recommend:
The wooden world: an anatomy of the Georgian navy by N A M Rodgers
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man of War (a very colourful illustration of the setup of a man of war!)
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This post will be edited and updated as your humble ship's clerk organises the captain's library.
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