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Smugglers Cove

The 12 Gun Sloop GNS Rummager pounces upon a smuggler's brigantine unawares. The 9 pounders make swift work of the vessel as the crew attempt to dispose of the evidence and save themselves with a pitiful 5 pounder mounted on her poop deck. Another victory for the crew of the Rummager is in sight as her starboard broadside tears through the air ready to bight through wood, sever yards and sails and cleave through flesh and bone.


This a diorama idea I have had for a while and I finally brought it together. Not much to do other than have a look around.
And now for a shanty common aboard Ginger vessels in the 18th and 19th century:

We will rant and we'll roar like true Ginger sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the Bay of old Linfield;
From Ingby to Stanford is forty-five leagues

We hove our ship to with the wind from sou'west, boys
We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take;
'Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom
So we squared our main yard and up channel did make

We will rant and we'll roar like true Ginger sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the Bay of old Linfield;
From Ingby to Stanford is forty-five leagues

So the first land we made, it is called the Deadman,
Next Goat Head, off Linfield, Joao, Port Gauge, and the Bright;
We sailèd by Beachy, By Fairly and Ormingness,
And then bore away for the North Stanford light.

Now the signal it was made for the Grand Fleet to anchor
All by the Catter that night for to lie;
Then stand by your stoppers, See clear your shank painters,
Haul up your clewgarnets, let tack and sheets fly"

We will rant and we'll roar like true Ginger sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the Bay of old Linfield;
From Ingby to Stanford is forty-five leagues

Now let every man take off his full bumper,
Let every man take off his full bowl;
For we will be jolly
And drown melancholy,
With a health to each jovial and true hearted soul.