Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey
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Most of his naval battles and adventures are drawn from actual Royal Navy history. Several of his exploits and reverses are directly based on the chequered career of Thomas Cochrane, most importantly the plots of Master and Commander, The Reverse of the Medal and Blue at the Mizzen. O'Brian is said to have pictured his friend, actor Charlton Heston, as Aubrey.[citation needed]
Throughout the books, Aubrey presents himself as a great lover of music and player of the violin. He is generally accompanied by his friend and shipmate Stephen Maturin on the cello. Aubrey is particularly fond of Corelli.
Aubrey is played by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
In Master and Commander, Aubrey attributes his education to "Queeny," the wife to Lord Keith, the historical Hester Thrale. Her family had occupied Damplow, a house near General Aubrey's estate and Jack learned mathematics and Latin from her.
Like many officers in the British fleet, Aubrey spent much of his life raised on the sea, joining the navy very early in his life. While a midshipman aboard the HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack was turned before the mast for hiding a black girl aboard the ship. He spent six months as a common seaman before being rerated as a midshipmen. This was when Lord Keith was still Captain Elphinstone, therefore pre-1797.
Aubrey also spent some time as 5th Lieutenant aboard HMS Hannibal (in service 1786–1801), under Captain John Newman. There, after insulting the first Lieutenant, he was put in front of a board, with Lord Keith upon it, which reprimanded him for his "petulance," which led to Aubrey spending eight months ashore with half pay.
While second lieutenant aboard HMS Foudroyant (1798), Aubrey was the leader of the prize crew for the Généreux when she was captured by Nelson's fleet in 1800.
During the series of novels, Jack Aubrey commands a large number of vessels. Most of them are ships of the Royal Navy, prefixed HMS. On one occasion he commands an Honourable East India Company Ship, and for some time Surprise is a hired vessel working for the Royal Navy (HMHV), and the Franklin is a privateer captured by Jack Aubrey, and used for a brief time, before he sells it. Nutmeg of Consolation's status is undefined, as she belongs to Stamford Raffles, the Governor of Batavia.
Throughout the books, Aubrey presents himself as a great lover of music and player of the violin. He is generally accompanied by his friend and shipmate Stephen Maturin on the cello. Aubrey is particularly fond of Corelli.
Aubrey is played by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
In Master and Commander, Aubrey attributes his education to "Queeny," the wife to Lord Keith, the historical Hester Thrale. Her family had occupied Damplow, a house near General Aubrey's estate and Jack learned mathematics and Latin from her.
Like many officers in the British fleet, Aubrey spent much of his life raised on the sea, joining the navy very early in his life. While a midshipman aboard the HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack was turned before the mast for hiding a black girl aboard the ship. He spent six months as a common seaman before being rerated as a midshipmen. This was when Lord Keith was still Captain Elphinstone, therefore pre-1797.
Aubrey also spent some time as 5th Lieutenant aboard HMS Hannibal (in service 1786–1801), under Captain John Newman. There, after insulting the first Lieutenant, he was put in front of a board, with Lord Keith upon it, which reprimanded him for his "petulance," which led to Aubrey spending eight months ashore with half pay.
While second lieutenant aboard HMS Foudroyant (1798), Aubrey was the leader of the prize crew for the Généreux when she was captured by Nelson's fleet in 1800.
During the series of novels, Jack Aubrey commands a large number of vessels. Most of them are ships of the Royal Navy, prefixed HMS. On one occasion he commands an Honourable East India Company Ship, and for some time Surprise is a hired vessel working for the Royal Navy (HMHV), and the Franklin is a privateer captured by Jack Aubrey, and used for a brief time, before he sells it. Nutmeg of Consolation's status is undefined, as she belongs to Stamford Raffles, the Governor of Batavia.
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