Well Dave: Though Anglo Irish, and first generation American, (though I lived in Ireland)I am quiet proud of my colateral relitive, be he a pirate or a privateer ( I prefer to call him the latter ) Capt. Otway Burns, who gave the crown a bloody good pasting during the little tiff between the US and England in 1812. His mother was an Otway. Somehow, I always am a bit more proud of him than Admiral Otway, of that other navy. Small funny point of history, we are related to Sir Roger Casement by marrage, and the Aud, on which he was bringing 10,000 russian rifles from Germany for the Eastern Rebellion, was first sighted by the HMS Otway, so we were well represented on both sides of that event, though as a republican my self, I identify with cousin Sir Roger. Well Dave, we will have to trade yarns and songs of both sides of the conflict over mugs of tea in the focsle on the old schooner Mudcat.
I used to have very intense political debates with a shipmate aloft on a brig, back in the seventies, he was from the Ilse of Wright, Cowes, well, we decided, even tough we remained great freinds in spite of differences, it was best to wait until we were seated below to debate the occupation of Ireland...
All the best shipmate
Larry Otway