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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 169467" data-attributes="member: 2209">Madriel,I didn't mean to imply that Churchill wrote the Hornblower novels.I may have gotten the first and last sentences of his quote a bit off but I was going from memory. He was asked by an admiral, I think, at a governmental function to toast the values that made the British navy a world power. Check out a book of toasts for confirmation of the quote (or urban legend ).Churchill also gave the best graduation speech ever.&quot;Never give up.&quot;Never give up.&quot;Never give up.&quot;Then he turned away from the podium and walked away.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Oh yeah,The novels also had them scouring the prisons for volunteer sailors which is a great adventure hook. When they were short of men they would also haul over merchant vessels and get some men to be transferred as well, although this was considered more dodgy.Discipline was enforced often in the books by canes, lashings with lengths of rope, and flogging. It would really suck to be pressed into the navy and have no clue what you were doing then lashed every time you screwed up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 169467, member: 2209"] Madriel, I didn't mean to imply that Churchill wrote the Hornblower novels. I may have gotten the first and last sentences of his quote a bit off but I was going from memory. He was asked by an admiral, I think, at a governmental function to toast the values that made the British navy a world power. Check out a book of toasts for confirmation of the quote (or urban legend ). Churchill also gave the best graduation speech ever. "Never give up. "Never give up. "Never give up." Then he turned away from the podium and walked away.:) Oh yeah, The novels also had them scouring the prisons for volunteer sailors which is a great adventure hook. When they were short of men they would also haul over merchant vessels and get some men to be transferred as well, although this was considered more dodgy. Discipline was enforced often in the books by canes, lashings with lengths of rope, and flogging. It would really suck to be pressed into the navy and have no clue what you were doing then lashed every time you screwed up. [/QUOTE]

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