Raphael
RaphaelOur sail to fetch Penny home from Hampshire was rather more comfortable than our earlier one returning from Southampton, after leaving her safely at Chewton Court with Susannah’s grandmother when threats were made to her life. This time our passage was arranged by Susannah’s father, though the King must have had a hand in it too or someone had on his behalf, for we were given the captain’s spacious cabin on a Royal Navy Man-o’-War first rate ship of the line, taking up the whole width of the aftcastle beneath expansive windows. After a dawn sailing, and with the speed expected of this ship, the captain would reclaim his space overnight so no one would be ousted to a hammock with the crew as had been expected of me on that first voyage.
We boarded HMS Persephone at the Dept
