"around Cape Horn is taken from the novel ""Desolation Island"", although the ""Acheron"" replaced the Dutch 74-gun warship ""Waakzaamheid"", the ""Surprise"" replaced the ""Leopard"", and in the book it is Aubrey who is being pursued around the Cape of Good Hope. The episode in which Aubrey deceives the enemy by means of a raft bearing lanterns is taken from ""Master and Commander"", and the episode in which Maturin directs the surgery on himself, while gritting his teeth in pain, to remove a bullet is taken from ""HMS Surprise"". Other incidents in the film come from other books in O'Brian's series."
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set in the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career. The film stars Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, captain in the Royal Navy, and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon. The film, which cost $150 million to make, was a co-production of 20th"
"December 2010, Crowe launched an appeal on Twitter to get the sequel made: ""If you want a ""Master and Commander"" sequel I suggest you e-mail Tom Rothman at Fox and let him know your thoughts"". Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set in the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career. The"
"from actual Royal Navy history. Several of his exploits and reverses, most importantly those in the plots of ""Master and Commander"", ""The Reverse of the Medal"" and ""Blue at the Mizzen"", are directly based on the chequered career of Thomas Cochrane: as his friend the botanist and surgeon Stephen Maturin mused, ""There was something of Cochrane in Jack, a restless impatience of authority, a strong persuasion of being in the right."" During the series of novels, Jack Aubrey commands a succession of many different vessels. Most of them are ships of the Royal Navy, prefixed HMS (His Majesty's Ship). On"
"a Hollywood production company. For the 2003 film """", the role of ""Surprise"" was filled by the same replica of HMS ""Rose"", which was purchased by the film studio and extensively modified at Baja Studios to resemble the original Surprise for the role. The book ""HMS Surprise"" by O'Brian also mentions Aubrey being a midshipman aboard ""Surprise"" The series has the ""Surprise"" in service until O'Brian's extended fictional year of 1812, using the latitude of fiction in ""The Reverse of the Medal"". In that era, the Royal Navy commissioned a 38-gun frigate by this name in September 1812. The fictional"
"sold ""Surprise"" out of the service at Deptford in February 1802 and she was broken up. HMS ""Surprise"" was the ship chosen by author Patrick O'Brian to restore Captain ""Lucky"" Jack Aubrey of the Aubrey–Maturin series to his place as a captain, and eventually see him raise his flag as an admiral of the Royal Navy. ""Surprise"" is an important element of the series, both because of her importance to the running plotline, and because of the emotional attachment she has earned among fans of the series. In the late 1990s, publisher W. W. Norton & Company rented the replica"
"well-tempered judgment seems to match with his skill in running a tight ship, a happy ship, and is a contrast to his financial faux pas. He can earn the money by taking rich prizes, but only with the help of his wife's good management and his lawyer's persistence at winning in lawsuits meant to take it from him, does the money stay in his hands for good uses. Aubrey is a prisoner of war with a perfect view of the naval battle in Algeciras Bay in ""Master and Commander"". He is a passenger aboard HMS ""Java"" when she is captured"
"seal bearing the name 'Nelson,' and one of ""Agamemnon""s 24-pounder guns from her main gundeck. The historical novelist Patrick O'Brian selected ""Agamemnon"" as one of the ships on which Jack Aubrey served as lieutenant, before the events of ""Master and Commander"", the first novel in his Aubrey–Maturin series. ""Agamemnon"" has also been the subject of at least two paintings by the British artist Geoff Hunt, currently the president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. To mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in 2005 the Woodland Trust planted 33 woods named after Royal Navy ships that fought in"
"success in the Mauritius campaign. Jack Aubrey is played by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film """". He is played by David Robb in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the novels. Jack Aubrey John ""Jack"" Aubrey, is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series portrays his rise from lieutenant to rear-admiral in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The twenty (and one incomplete draft)-book series encompasses Aubrey's adventures and various commands along his course to flying a rear admiral's flag. Some of his naval battles and adventures are drawn from Royal"
"one occasion he commands an Honourable East India Company ship, and for some time after she is sold out of the service, the ""Surprise"" is a hired vessel working for the Royal Navy (HMHV), having been purchased by Stephen Maturin. The ""Franklin"" is a privateer Jack Aubrey captures and uses for a brief time before he sells it. The status of the ""Nutmeg of Consolation"" is undefined, as she belongs to Stamford Raffles, the Governor of Batavia. Although the names and characteristics of real Royal Navy ships are used in the novels, the ships often do not take the same"
"essence of my books is about human relationships and how people treat one another."" Readers of the Aubrey-Maturin series are familiar with Jack Aubrey's resort to his violin. Captain Sullivan also plays the violin. Jack Aubrey eventually becomes the owner of his beloved ship, the ""Surprise"". So, Captain Sullivan owns the ""Wanderer"". Both ships are outdated: the ""Surprise"" is no longer large enough or sufficiently armed to compete in combat with contemporary navy vessels, and the ""Wanderer"" is being superseded by steam-powered ships. Certain qualities of Professor Ayrton are found in an extreme degree in Stephen Maturin. Both men are"
"is replaced in the book by the fictional Jack Aubrey, who repeats many of Cochrane's real-life exploits including the defence of a convoy and the recapture of one of its merchants from a privateer, and the capture of a large Spanish frigate, based on the ""Gamo"", but renamed ""Cacafuego"" for the novel. HMS Speedy (1782) HMS ""Speedy"" was a 14-gun ""Speedy""-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, she served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars. Built at Dover, Kent, ""Speedy"" spent most of the interwar years serving off"
"deep respect for naval tradition. Remarkable early success earned him the nickname ""Lucky Jack Aubrey"" and a reputation as a ""fighting captain"", a reputation which he sought to retain throughout his career. But while frequently ""brilliant"" and much respected at sea, he is less competent on land, as indiscreet liaisons, impertinent remarks, and poor financial decisions often bring him trouble. Aubrey's professional life of daring exploits and reverses was inspired by the chequered careers of Thomas Cochrane and other notable captains of the Royal Navy from the period. Irish-Catalan Dr. Stephen Maturin ostensibly serves as an adept ship's surgeon on"
"1815. The fictional HMS ""Surprise"" was a sixth rate ship. It was the frigate captained by Jack Aubrey and was based on the actual historical frigate, formerly the French ""Unité"", which was captured and renamed by the Royal Navy in 1796. The Surprise plays a prominent role in many of Patrick O'Brian's popular novels, collectively known as the Aubrey–Maturin series, and was portrayed in the 2003 film """". In the novel ""Mason and Dixon"" by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship ""Seahorse"". The novel ""The Watering"
"Jack Aubrey John ""Jack"" Aubrey, is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series portrays his rise from lieutenant to rear-admiral in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The twenty (and one incomplete draft)-book series encompasses Aubrey's adventures and various commands along his course to flying a rear admiral's flag. Some of his naval battles and adventures are drawn from Royal Navy history. Several of his exploits and reverses, most importantly those in the plots of ""Master and Commander"", ""The Reverse of the Medal"" and ""Blue at the Mizzen"", are directly based on"
"In the novel, Carew takes the place of Midshipman Casey. Neals demonstrates his cruelty in the same fashion as Pigot. Neals orders Carew to kneel and beg for forgiveness, and he disrates her and has her flogged when she refuses. In Patrick O'Brian's novel ""HMS Surprise"" (1973), the fictional Captain Jack Aubrey recounts to a passenger on the ""Surprise"" why his vessel is also referred to as the ""Nemesis"". He explains that the nickname was given to the ""Surprise"" after a previous captain, Edward Hamilton, cut out the ""Hermione"" in a ""most brilliant piece of service!"" during the action at"
"uses some of the characters, dialogue and events from the Aubrey-Maturin series, but does not faithfully reproduce the plot of the books. Master and Commander Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey-Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, that O'Brian continued working on up until his death in 2000. The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century. It follows the young Jack Aubrey who"
"historical novel ""Master and Commander"", where he is described as a former shipmate of the fictional character Jack Aubrey. Ferris was born circa 1748 and embarked on a naval career. He was commissioned as a lieutenant on 9 September 1778, during the American War of Independence, and was further promoted to commander on 22 November 1790. He went on to command small ships prior to the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. His first ship, which he was appointed to in March 1791, was the 14-gun . His command was short lived, and he paid her off in September that"
"of the book. HMS Surprise (1796) HMS ""Surprise"" was the name the Royal Navy gave to the French Navy's corvette ""Unité"" after her capture in 1796. Launched on 16 February 1794, the ship gained fame in 1799 for the recapture of , and in 1802 was sold out of the service. Historical fiction author Patrick O'Brian set many of his Aubrey–Maturin series aboard HMS ""Surprise"", including the 2003 . Pierre-Alexandre Forfait designed ""Unité"", the name ship for a class of corvette. Although the French initially rated ""Unité"" as a corvette, the ships of her class bridged a gap between smaller"
"The Far Side of the World The Far Side of the World is the tenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1984. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The story from ""Treason's Harbour"" has several points resolved, as to the success of Maturin's work identifying the French spies, the trap that Aubrey sailed out of but HMS ""Pollux"" did not, and Aubrey resolving the tension between him and Lieutenant Fielding, who escaped the worst French prisoner-of-war facility. In Gibraltar, Captain Aubrey receives another mission, to sail HMS"
"Master and Commander Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey-Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, that O'Brian continued working on up until his death in 2000. The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century. It follows the young Jack Aubrey who has just been promoted to the rank of Master and Commander, and Stephen Maturin, a destitute physician and naturalist whom Aubrey appoints"
"Millennium Falcon The Millennium Falcon is a fictional starship in the ""Star Wars"" franchise. The modified YT-1300 Corellian light freighter is primarily commanded by Corellian smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). Designed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC), the highly modified YT-1300 is durable, modular, and is stated as being the second-fastest vessel in the ""Star Wars"" canon. The ""Millennium Falcon"" first appears in ""Star Wars"" (1977), and subsequently in ""The Star Wars Holiday Special"" (1978), ""The Empire Strikes Back"" (1980), ""Return of the Jedi"" (1983), """" (2005), """" (2015), """" (2017), and"
"to defend his ship. Cochrane obliged, with the equivocal wording that he had 'conducted himself like a true Spaniard'. ""El Gamo"" was subsequently sold to the ruler of Algiers as a merchantman. This battle inspired Patrick O'Brian in the novel ""Master and Commander"", where, in a very similar manner, the brig HMS Sophie escapes from, then lures and captures the Spanish Xebeque-frigate Cacafuego, as the first major battle of his main character Jack Aubrey. Action of 6 May 1801 The Action of 6 May 1801 was a minor naval engagement between the 32-gun xebec-frigate ""El Gamo"" of the Spanish Navy"
"and stranded. A chance meeting with newly-promoted Jack Aubrey at a musical performance gains him the position of ship's surgeon aboard Aubrey's first command, HMS ""Sophie"", a fictional brig-rigged sloop-of-war. Being that ships' surgeons in that era usually received very limited training or advanced education, the officers and crew of the ""Sophie"" are very pleased to have a true physician on board. Their esteem for Maturin's medical skill increases early on when he successfully performs delicate surgery on deck, repairing a crew member's serious head injury by removing a damaged portion of his skull and replacing it with a coin"
"novel. The two principal characters, ""bluff, hearty Aubrey and reedy, intellectual Maturin"", return for an exciting story with accurate historical depictions. ""Jack's seamanship and heroism are complemented by Stephen's absent-minded brilliance . . . in this swift, witty tale of money and love."" Richard Snow called it a ""self-contained and satisfying story."" Jack Aubrey, now a civilian, prepares the ""Surprise"" to sail as a letter of marque. The loss of his place on the Navy list is the hardest blow. He is stoic, but appears harsh to his new crew. His reputation brings him a full crew, and he takes"
"Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series, the first of which is ""Master and Commander"", is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially finished 21st novel in the series was published"
"their [Aubrey and Maturin's] characters in exceptional depth."" One reviewer compared O'Brian's writing style to that of several famous writers, considering that he has left C S Forester far behind, and is ""one of the best storytellers afloat"", with use of nautical detail that is ""unalloyed, unapologetic and absolutely right."" Another called it ""Intelligent escape"" as reading material, while another finds it ""will delight fans."" ""Surprise"" sails eastbound from Port Jackson in New South Wales. Jack Aubrey is in an ill-humour as a result of the frigate's visit to the abysmal penal settlement - firstly, because Stephen Maturin's duel with"
"time and was broken up, having served in the navy for over 50 years, an unusually long time for one of the old wooden ships. ""Bellona"" appears in the Patrick O'Brian novels ""The Commodore"" and ""The Yellow Admiral"" as the pennant ship of a squadron led by the character Jack Aubrey. HMS Bellona (1760) HMS ""Bellona"" was a 74-gun ""Bellona""-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century. ""The design of the Bellona class was never repeated"
"Aubrey–Maturin series The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent. The first novel, ""Master and Commander"", was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004. The series received considerable international acclaim and most of the novels reached ""The New York"
"The Commodore (novel) The Commodore is the seventeenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1995. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. In this novel, Aubrey and Maturin complete their circumnavigation of the globe begun in ""The Thirteen Gun Salute"" and continued through ""The Nutmeg of Consolation"", ""Clarissa Oakes/The Truelove"", and ""The Wine-Dark Sea"". After a long-awaited stay at home in England, Commodore Aubrey is given a squadron to conduct a mission against slave ships in West Africa and then he and Maturin are sent against"
"Naval Vessel Register on 18 June 1948. ""Salt Lake City"" received 11 battle stars for her World War II service, and a Navy Unit Commendation for her actions during the Aleutian Campaign. In the 1965 film ""In Harm's Way"", a cruiser called ""Old Swayback"" was the cruiser commanded by Captain Rockwell Torrey (John Wayne) at Pearl Harbor USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) USS ""Salt Lake City"" (CL/CA-25) of the United States Navy was a , later reclassified as a heavy cruiser, sometimes known as ""Swayback Maru"" or ""Old Swayback"". She had the (unofficial) distinction of having taken part in more"
"of the most well-known non-Federation ships is the ""Bird of Prey"", which was crewed by Captain Kirk and his crew in the 1986 film ""Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"". This also provides an example of the creative alien spaceship design, as the film featured an extremely large black cylinder for the ""whale probe"", unlike the typical ""warp drive"" ships like the ""Enterprise"". The ""Star Trek"" universe also included a large number of shuttlecraft, which although small compared to the large vessels was typical place for dialogue between 2–3 characters in a large number of episodes of these shows. The"
"it is not an authentic tall ship. Another version, mounted on a gimbal, was built for filming the Maelstrom battle. In 2010, the ""Sunset"", which played the ""Black Pearl"" in most of the films, was reconstructed to portray the ""Queen Anne's Revenge"" in """". Black Pearl The Black Pearl is a fictional ship in the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" film series. (The physical ship used as a prop during filmmaking is actually named the ""Sunset"".) In the screenplay, the ""Black Pearl"" is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. Captained by Jack Sparrow she is said to be"