The sea is mercurial, like a woman; she can be calm and inviting, or stormy and opportunistic when fancy strikes.
The sea is mercurial, like a woman; she can be calm and inviting, or stormy and opportunistic when fancy strikes.Batiste de Brangelton to Francis de Brangelton - 1688
In an unwelcome change of the weather, the thick fog rendered the lanterns barely visible; two ships could drift apart or dangerously close and no one would be wiser until they could see or hear each other. The seas had calmed to allow the battle to commence, though, if that was the intent. Throughout the night, the lookouts at the rails stood silent and tense; the men assigned for messenger duty quietly conveyed communications from the sentries. It was a ghost ship, primed to turn into purgatory at the first ca
