Secure the guns!
Away with the yard!
Keep her in the wind!
Up the shrouds!
Starboard your helm!
Let the wind take her!
Watch the clew lines there!
Hands aloft to secure!
Fortress off the larboard bow!
Next time, would you knock before entering the captain's cabin?
Deck there!
A rum looking lot
Man the side!
That leaves us time for a rubber at whist.
Now, men!
You're giving her away?
Run out a gun!
Stand by the carronade
That's done it!
A letter from your admiralty
We swim home
Get that boat underway!
Man the brace!
Beat to quarters and clear for action
The helm's a lee
Head and foresheets, let go!
That's one in the beezer, one in the belly, and nothing back from him!
The f'o'c's'le
Did you hear that? He knew my name. He knew my name.
Put on a bosun's jacket and went to work
Go below and help her!
Bosun, double ration of rum all around!
2 comments:
Horatio Hornblower has to be one of my favorite fictional sea captains.
I've never read him, but I've seen old and new versions on the screen. Gregory Peck is absolutely fantastic, as is Ioan Gruffudd.
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