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HMS Sophie
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HMS Sophie, more properly His Majesty's Sloop Sophie, is a fictional brig-rigged sloop-of-war that features in the first of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, Master and Commander. The vessel carries fourteen cannon, of 4lbs. each, mounted on her upper deck and two one her quarter deck, and is rigged with two masts, square-rigged on both with a large gaf-sail aft of the mainmast. She has a crew of 89, counting officers, men, boys, and marines. Her keel is fifty-nine foot long and her gun-deck is seventy-eight foot three inches. She is notable for having a quarterdeck, a rare feature on vessels so small, and an elm tree pump, also rare on a vessel of her size. She was Spanish built, and captured by the Royal Navy, becoming Jack Aubrey's first command. |
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