A Bit of a Problem
A glorified fighting fishing boat manned by the most bumbling of idiots. What could possibly go wrong?
HMS Stanford barely ever saw action throughout the whole Napoleonic Wars. She was mainly on channel blockade duty,
or wreaking havoc in the Baltic. With an aging and senile captain, a permanently drunk First Lieutenant, and a Sailing
Master who barely even knows his left from right (let alone his port and starboard), Sloppy Stanford and her crew were
infamous among the Royal Navy. Her crew could be counted on to screw up even the most simple of tasks, though by
some stroke of sheer luck Stanford was never captured by enemies. Not that they'd want her, anyway. Her crew has
caused more damage to Navy property than Trafalgar did. Not to mention their accidental sale of a thousand pounds
worth of sailor's undergarments due to an illiterate purser, or the fact that they got hopelessly lost on their way back
home and ended up nearly causing war with Sweden...
Eh, one day I'll write about/draw this lot. The Misadventures of HMS Stanford - that's got a nice ring to it!
Inspired by the 1960s radio sitcom The Navy Lark, which is absolutely hilarious, despite being set in the modern day.
HMS Stanford barely ever saw action throughout the whole Napoleonic Wars. She was mainly on channel blockade duty,
or wreaking havoc in the Baltic. With an aging and senile captain, a permanently drunk First Lieutenant, and a Sailing
Master who barely even knows his left from right (let alone his port and starboard), Sloppy Stanford and her crew were
infamous among the Royal Navy. Her crew could be counted on to screw up even the most simple of tasks, though by
some stroke of sheer luck Stanford was never captured by enemies. Not that they'd want her, anyway. Her crew has
caused more damage to Navy property than Trafalgar did. Not to mention their accidental sale of a thousand pounds
worth of sailor's undergarments due to an illiterate purser, or the fact that they got hopelessly lost on their way back
home and ended up nearly causing war with Sweden...
Eh, one day I'll write about/draw this lot. The Misadventures of HMS Stanford - that's got a nice ring to it!
Inspired by the 1960s radio sitcom The Navy Lark, which is absolutely hilarious, despite being set in the modern day.