Post by jm on Jan 19, 2010 23:30:19 GMT -5
Name: John Morris
Age (at time of apprenticeship): 30
Appearance: Tall dark haired and dark brown eyes nearly, but not quite six feet tall
Family: Mother and father owned a bakers in Plymouth
Personality in Brief: Calm and efficient but has a temper to match his reputation as cold hearted unfeeling and ..cold
Pre-Apprentice History: Ship is the brig Widow, an ex royal navy frigate. She has two gundecks, the lower gun deck housing eight guns a side and the main deck with five guns a side, fitted to the fore and aft rails are the smaller swivel cannon to shower and sweep the rigging and decks of other ships be they attacking the Widow or trying to escape her guns and crew.
John Morris was born in plymouth to a baker and his wife. From as soon as he learned to walk and carry he delivered bread in barrows to the navy ships that where a premanant feature of his life. By the time he reached fourteen he was tall willowy but possesed an inner strength that could only be guessed at.
One evening in early summer he was returning, from some errand or other that his father had sent him on, when he was pressed in to the navy.
This new career, forced on him by the need of the english navy for more and more crews to man the ships of the Royal Navy started the very moment he was dragged aboared beaten and nearly unconcious, tossed down the steps in to the midst of the crews quaters and pushed under a low slung hammock between two of the 20 pounders.
Once awoke he found to his horror that the ship he was on had put to sea and he was being pushed and kicked in to the lower hold of the ship, well below the water line lay the ships magazine and powder room barrels of water and salted meat bread wrapped in sack cloth and waxed cheese crates of all shapes held the hard ships biscuits nails coils of ropes pulley's and timber filled every avialable space. His job, he was told, was do as he was told by any one and every one. In battle he would be used to clear the wounded bring up the kegs of powder to feed the hungry guns. he would learn to climb the rigging haul on heavy canvas sails and tarred rope. Eventually his stature, within the ship grew, he was taught by the new Captain how to navigate how to set sails find the wind, every thing of those early days now seemed a blury image of a boys fantasy. He new the Widow by heart every inch of her insides every rope and windlass. The ship was involved in the great mutany and as the Captain and most of the officers where ashore at the time only the timely demise of the lower ranking officers was left, the highest being a young and newly promoted lueitenant who found himself wallowing dead in the Widow's wake as she sailed out of the port.
The whole of the crew decided that John Morris should become their pirate captain and he has led them thus far.
Captain and country under which you wish to perform your probationary period
Age (at time of apprenticeship): 30
Appearance: Tall dark haired and dark brown eyes nearly, but not quite six feet tall
Family: Mother and father owned a bakers in Plymouth
Personality in Brief: Calm and efficient but has a temper to match his reputation as cold hearted unfeeling and ..cold
Pre-Apprentice History: Ship is the brig Widow, an ex royal navy frigate. She has two gundecks, the lower gun deck housing eight guns a side and the main deck with five guns a side, fitted to the fore and aft rails are the smaller swivel cannon to shower and sweep the rigging and decks of other ships be they attacking the Widow or trying to escape her guns and crew.
John Morris was born in plymouth to a baker and his wife. From as soon as he learned to walk and carry he delivered bread in barrows to the navy ships that where a premanant feature of his life. By the time he reached fourteen he was tall willowy but possesed an inner strength that could only be guessed at.
One evening in early summer he was returning, from some errand or other that his father had sent him on, when he was pressed in to the navy.
This new career, forced on him by the need of the english navy for more and more crews to man the ships of the Royal Navy started the very moment he was dragged aboared beaten and nearly unconcious, tossed down the steps in to the midst of the crews quaters and pushed under a low slung hammock between two of the 20 pounders.
Once awoke he found to his horror that the ship he was on had put to sea and he was being pushed and kicked in to the lower hold of the ship, well below the water line lay the ships magazine and powder room barrels of water and salted meat bread wrapped in sack cloth and waxed cheese crates of all shapes held the hard ships biscuits nails coils of ropes pulley's and timber filled every avialable space. His job, he was told, was do as he was told by any one and every one. In battle he would be used to clear the wounded bring up the kegs of powder to feed the hungry guns. he would learn to climb the rigging haul on heavy canvas sails and tarred rope. Eventually his stature, within the ship grew, he was taught by the new Captain how to navigate how to set sails find the wind, every thing of those early days now seemed a blury image of a boys fantasy. He new the Widow by heart every inch of her insides every rope and windlass. The ship was involved in the great mutany and as the Captain and most of the officers where ashore at the time only the timely demise of the lower ranking officers was left, the highest being a young and newly promoted lueitenant who found himself wallowing dead in the Widow's wake as she sailed out of the port.
The whole of the crew decided that John Morris should become their pirate captain and he has led them thus far.
Captain and country under which you wish to perform your probationary period