NationStates Jolt Archive

The Wind Blew In teh sails of the sailing ship Voyager. The three mast frigate slipped through teh water gracefully. The ship was Crewed by Battlehawk Navy Cadets, on a trip around the world. They had been sailing for several weeks now and the crew was melding as a team. The Cadets were overseen my members of the Battlehawk navy. Whilst the ship was armed with 9-pounders and the officers and cadets were training to use them, they were only ever likely to be used againt modern pirates in skiffs, hoping for a quick kill.

The Ship was slippng through sunny waters and blue skies and all was going well. Up one of the masts a shout was heard
"Ship Ho!"
The Cadets looked up and then to where the look-out was pointing. On the horizon the outlne of a ship could be seen.

OOC: It's a wooden Sailing ship, armed with cannons only, don't blast it out the damn water

The men on the ship were interested to see the other wooden ship coming toward us.

"Establish communications. I want to know who the hell they are, and why the fuck they are traveling in our waters."

"Hey Ho!"

They threw a line over to the ship and started yelling on a loudspeaker.
"We need to talk to you about your intentions of being in our waters!"

"Are they being serious?" Lt Commander Jenny Jones, the Ranking navel officer aboard the Voyager commented "Have they never heard of innocent passage?"
The Voyager conntinued sailing proudly, the thrown over line fell to the sea. The Expediation flag flew at the main mast. One of the Cadets had found a loudhailer and Jenny got on it and said back
"Good Morning gentlemen, it's called Innocent passage, we're circumnaviagateing the globe here, we are a bit behind schedual" Jenny commented

"Sir, they are circumnavigating the globe."
"Alright, ask them if they want to establish formal contact with us to trade."

The sailor yelled the line above.

"Sir, it's done."
"Good, now raise the mast, and we can trade them new supplies to trade in their travels!"

"Well I suppose we could" Jennys XO, who was A Cadet Captain due to the combined nature of the voyage, commented, Jenny grinned and nodded to teh Cadet Captain who shouted at the crew to lower sails
"Alright, we're dropping anchor" Jenny shouted back.

OOC: What ship type is it?, A cruiser, patrol boat what?

OOC: It's a patrol cruiser, sorry that I don't have the exact class name on the top of my head.

"Sir, they are dropping anchor, should we take them to our lands?"
"Yes, most definitely."
They threw the line on the other ship and waited for them to tie it to the ship so they could take them to the Soundgardens.

"Send a radio message to Mission Control, just in case" Jenny ordered, Tom Lennox, the Cadet Captain
"Yes Ma'am" Tom replied before heading below decks as the crew tied the rope.

They saw them tying a rope to the ship.

"Okay," He yelled over a loudspeaker, "Let us take you to our exotic land."

They started sailing and the motors started grinding. They set off to the Soundgardens.

"Keep an eye on the hull, don't know what that engine could do to us" Jenny ordered and the cadets got to work