08 Apr 2014
The Real 'Master and Commander': The log of HMS ‘Phoebe’ and the capture of the USS ‘Essex’
As many naval fiction buffs will know, the 2003 film Master and Commander is based on the Patrick O’Brian novel The Far Side of the World. Both novel and film are based on events which occurred 200 years ago this March, during the War of 1812 between Britain and the young United States of America.