barefoot_bard

Title: The Dogwatches
Rating: M (Suitable for ages 16 and above)
Disclaimers: With the exception of historical figures, all names given in this story are fictional and any relation to actual persons, living or dead, is purely incidental.
Story summary: A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies/South Carolina, 1780.
Author's Note: Any factual errors that occur within are my own. The narrators will change from scene to scene, as this story is told primarily by the ship's Marines.

This is a re-issuing of the story, following substantial editing of the original piece.
Previous chapters: One | Two | Three | Four

( Chapter Five )

Title: Celebrations
Rating: K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above)
Disclaimers: The character Tom Oxley is the property of sharpiefan.
Original pen-date: 12 August 2010
Summary: StC-verse. Tom Oxley helps with a prank aboard ship. February 1815.
Author's Note: More fun fluff, this time with a former drummer boy.

( The story )