..er...yes, sorry, Keith, NOT 'Stephen Aubrey'! I've read the first eight or so so I ought to know the characters by now!

Didn't realise that they were ALL based on Cochrane. I've read the first volume of his autobiography (imaginatively entitled 'Autobiography of a Seaman') and will get on with the second eventually - it's quite heavy going at times. The siege of Rosas crops up in one of the Aubrey books....?   Now there was an exciting episode.

Steve