ext_8683: (Ships Nonsuch)
Black Hound ([identity profile] black-hound.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] quigonejinn 2006-12-29 09:16 pm (UTC)

Bush has so many stories to tell at this point.

It's like the retelling of his life. Like an oral tradition or oral history. Just as his life is about to end. Ya know? The final meeting with Pellew and his officers on Pellew's flagship before Nonsuch is despatched to help Hornblower.

At the end of FC, doesn't Hardy say something about 'posting' Bush as captain? That would imply he was being made a post-captain with full rank, not just a master & commander type of captain. I'm sorta talking out of my ass here, because I don't really know, but it's very possible that the Resident Commissioner positions qualified as post-captain positions. At least from what I've read about them. Comparable to being posted to a rated vessel.

I guess that second epaulette would just depend on the math. Did he have 3 years of service between the end of FC and his death?

*can't do math*

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