Blue at the Mizzen is the twentieth and last completed historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1999. It is...

character killed and buried at sea in chapter six of the preceding book: Blue at the Mizzen) informs Maturin of a rumpus in the town: a fight between Protestant...

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...

The Truelove in the US) The Wine-Dark Sea (1993) The Commodore (1994) The Yellow Admiral (1996) The Hundred Days (1998) Blue at the Mizzen (1999) The...

Blue at the Mizzen, is the only volume which is set entirely after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars . In his introduction to The Far Side of the...

played in the 2003 film by Patrick Gallagher. In the final Aubrey/Maturin adventure, Blue at the Mizzen, Aubrey describes Davies in a letter written to...

still at sea in 1817 when Aubrey receives news of his promotion to Rear-Admiral of the Blue in her great cabin at the end of Blue at the Mizzen, the last...

Commodore and Blue at the Mizzen, both in the Aubrey-Maturin series. London portal Safeguarded wharf Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1983). The London Encyclopaedia...

Talbot, who was lost overboard "near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia". In Patrick O'Brian's novel Blue at the Mizzen, a British man-of-war is sent on...

under Tarifa before running through the Strait. The Surprise, Ringle and the blue cutter lie in wait in the Strait. The galley sees three armed ships, and...

actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. After a long career in smaller roles, Pigott-Smith's appearance as Arthur Llewellyn Davies in the BBC's mini-series...

government to support the preservation of Cutty Sark. In the 1999 Patrick O'Brian novel Blue at the Mizzen, set soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in...

flown. On a ketch, the house flag would be moved to the mizzen. When in port, the ensign should always be flown from the staff at the stern. This is traditional...

the movie, she was killed by Mizzen in the Cornucopia Bloodbath. Her assigned mentor is Urban Canville. Mizzen is the District 4 male tribute in the 10th...

2nd Cutter 1864, Acting Ensign J.M. Hudson". The flag as used on the mizzen gaff of Red, White and Blue measured 31 by 42 inches (79 by 107 cm), having...

of the Blue Squadron command flag 1702 to 1864 for use in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Broad pennants flown at the mizzen topgallant...

considered the most experienced men aboard. In all, the six watch teams were as follows:[citation needed] Aloft: Fore topmen, main topmen, mizzen topmen Deck:...

Names for the three watches—instead of Port and Starboard—vary from ship to ship. Naming schemes such as "Foremast", "Mainmast" and "Mizzen"; and "Tomato"...

His Fate". The New Yorker. 6 December 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2022. "Free-diving: Blue hole, black hole: A story of hubris and obsession". The Economist...

cutters to use a removable mizzen mast for use when reaching, setting a lugsail. Since the boom of the mainsail overhung the stern, the mast would have to be...

at the corners of a sail, for fixing the sail to a spar. They are often reinforced with a metal eye. cro'jack The square sail set on the lower mizzen...

modern times. The mizzen mast consisted of only two sections, a mizzen which stepped on the upper gundeck followed by a mizzen topmast. The bowsprit was...

She won the 2001 Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. She is rigged with double topsails on the fore and main mast and a single topsail on the mizzen. She has...

to sell the ship. In the beginning Sea Cloud featured royal-sails over single topgallant- and double top-sails on the fore and mizzen masts. The main mast...

show a topsail above the mainsail, and also a mizzen sail, mounted at the stern. The raft was partially decked in split bamboo. The main spars were a laminate...

worn with the medal and [a] rosette or knot to be worn in lieu of the medal." The service ribbon is light blue with five white stars in the form of an...

on deck were pushed through the deckhouse wall halfway into the wardroom. The ship's Blue Ensign was hoisted up her mizzen mast so that she would, in Shackleton's...

mizzen. A jib was set on a bowsprit and the mizzen sheeted to a long outrigger. The mainmast could be dispensed with to give more working room in the...

numbering 21 sails, from the flying jib to the mizzen topgallant staysail. But that hardly prepares the unwary for Captain Aubrey and his crew's discussions...

off the halliard would drop it immediately killing the forward drive. The mizzen boom in a mulie is sheeted down to the long shallow rudder. The masts...