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Doctor Bright Began with the Navy and his Family is Navy which is my explanation of how an actual Doctor found himself aboard; his Grandfather and father served under Admiral Baron Hawke at Quiberon Bay against the Royal French Navy as the Second in command of the Third Rate HMS Resolution an action that saw him receive commendations and his own command of the same ship his own Captain beached for his injuries.
"Tradition"
"Service"
"Duty"
Arthur's family has had men before the Mast at least 6 generations
Age: 26
Personality:
Role:Ship’s Surgeon
How Arthur got into the Navy: A King’s letter Boy Arthur entered the service of the crown at 12 years of age handed over by his aging grandfather a former Ship’s Master and Knight of the Bath his only support forced to part with the lad as his health fell.
Experience with the navy: Doctor Bright began his career as many such a young man of letters aspiring to become a ships officer learning the trade of sail till at age 14 he was found to have a knack as a Loblolly Boy and was given as an Apprentice to the Ships Surgeon.
At age 17 Arthur’s time before the mast saw a two year hiatus while he attended college at Oxford using a portion of his Inheritance and a letter from the Navy Board Barber-Surgeons' Company and Admiralty’s blessing. Advanced in his studies compared to the other’s attending school Arthur was quick to graduate at 19 after which he returned to the Mast prepared to continue his service.
Assigned as a Junior Surgeon aboard a First Rate He was quickly advanced to Chief Surgeon only 20 when his former mentor died after he had a leg carried away in a fierce exchange.
Recently assigned to HMS Courageux (3rd Rate 74) his tenure was cut short by the new Captain’s preference for a surgeon with as he put it “A face of weathered Experience and not of a young Choirboy”
Beached he was able to find a berth aboard the HMS Plymouth trough a friend at the Board Barber-Surgeons
Fresh off the Dock he begins this as his first voyage aboard
Skills:Surgeon, Apothecary, Navigation, and Fencing
Shortcomings:Arthur’s greatest Shortcoming is his Baby face which means many have doubts of his skills and some many jealous of his attraction of women. (Either women the other officer had their eye on or a relative such as sisters and worst daughters)
He also carries the mark of helping support the Spithead Mutiny Sailors only protested by his title and the fact he was only active as a Doctor seeing to the health of the men who were on strike. (As a doctor he agreed with their plea for more sanitary conditions along with more palatable rations.
Tools/Weapons: Tool Sample Doctor’s Kit Link
1 Prussian Fencing Saber
Extra: 4 uniform
2 Boots
43 Books cluttering his bunk and spaces many on medicine and others of science, 7 poetry
1 Simple Silver Tea Set (Prize of war Dutch made)
Oh and not sure if it is a short coming or asset but Arthur has a beautiful singing voice
Oh and anyone who checks on Doc Bright's rep will hear he's a fast amputation expert and many men are alive because he cares about those under his charge and is an able bodied seaman's friend his patients surviving more often than not.
@Sirkaithethird
@Sirkaithethird
Sorry to be a prig but the Napoleonic War was 1798 to 1815 LOL Typo can be fun
Sorry I count the real war as starting at the Nile though some might go as far back as the beginning of the French revolution
Of course there was the Anglo-French War from 1778 - 1783 which was a result of the French supporting the American Revolution but fought under the banner of King Louis XVI...lets face it the English and French had been fighting a limited kind of war for half a century by the time of the Battle of the Nile