Undercover Curiousers Book 4

Author's note: Undercover Curiousers is the fourth book a series that began with Undercover on the Titanic.

After surviving the Titanic sinking (despite the malfunction of Silverwood School's time machine), an attempt to rescue my parents in China and a kidnapping attempt by a gang of American security agents, Licia, Miguel and I are press-ganged onto a British 20 gun frigate in 1788 CE. Unfortunately, France has just declared war in support of the American war of independence.

We quickly learn some new terminology useful on a 20 gun sailing frigate including;- lubber hole, futtock shrouds, jib halyard, bowsprit, mizzen sail, head (toilet), belaying pins, burgoo, cat 'o nine tails and grog.

When a French frigate appears, we discover how to fire a ten gun broadside and how not to abandon a sinking ship as it runs aground.

But leaving the ship makes us deserters . . . and the navy hangs deserters by the neck . . . from the yard arm.