One of England's finest

It's 1797 and the Proud ship Terpsichore. 32- 12 pounders, and 220 Officers, sailers, and Marines

This frigate is capable of sailing anywhere in the world, and doing anything she might be ordered to do.  Sail around the Horn and into the Pacific, or out to Botany Bay, maybe she will be sent North to Russia to carry a Diplomatic Gentleman to meet the Czar.

The HMS Terpsichore Roll Playing Game is a play by forum style story. Captain Williams is the Game Master who will guide the story along while allowing the other story tellers to develop their own characters and tell their part in each mission.  The idea of roll playing historic events are very strong and common, we will not participate in the battle of Trafalgar, or the taking of the Spanish treasure fleet, but rather as a frigate on detached service we will be preforming missions of a political nature, or carrying messages to one fleet or another, there may be missions of discovery, and even the putting down of pirates or rebels.

To tell the honest truth there is no telling where the Terpsichore will sail off to next, right now she is in Portsmouth getting fitted out for travels far foreign...

When one is writing about the Royal Navy of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries  it is difficult to avoid understatement; it is difficult to do full justice to ones's subject; for so very often the improbable reality outruns fiction. Even an uncommonly warm and industrious imagination could scarcely produce the frail shape of Commodore Nelson leaping from his battered seventy-four-gun Captain through the quarter-gallery window of the eighty-gun San Nicolas, taking her, and hurrying on across her deck to board the towering San Josef of a hundred and twelve guns, so that 'on the deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of the vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm'.

The pages of Beatson, James, and the Naval Chronicle, the Admiralty papers, in the Public Record Office, the biographies in Marshall and O'Byrne are filled with actions that may be a little less spectacular (there was only one Nelson), but that are certainly no less spirited - actions that few men could invent and perhaps non present with total conviction. ...

~ Patrick O'Brian, Authors Note, Master and Commander