Link to the related website that has useful info: the Age of Nelson.

This forum is devoted to the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793 - 1815).
And why not the other navies of the period?
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Post Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:21 pm    Post subject: Schettino Limerick Reply with quote

Certainly out of period but I couldn't resist :
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=142769
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Post Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest after steering the ship into rocks on the island of Giglio in January, was not wearing his glasses that night, the ship's first officer has told investigators.

"He had forgotten them in his cabin," said Ciro Ambrosio. "He asked me a number of times to adjust the scale of the radar because he couldn't see it well."
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