Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 06, 2003 at -1:45:50 from 193.195.0.102 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Ultimate Shortened Stories posted by andy bolger on November 05, 2003 at 20:44:24:
Commander Walker watched the telegraph boy get smaller as the frigate steamed out of the harbour.
Frigate?
My dear chap, the Commander was in destroyers, wasn't he? Greyhounds of the sea. Frigates were a kind of Woolworth class of subhunters invented in the war...
Pedants'R us.
Apart from which I'm probably wrong...