Hah, I was thinking this sounded a lot like "Lucky Jack". I remembered that O'Brian had drawn on a lot of captain's logs for the novels but still based a lot o

Hah, I was thinking this sounded a lot like "Lucky Jack". I remembered that O'Brian had drawn on a lot of captain's logs for the novels but still based a lot of him on a single captain, but I wasn't sure if this was the man until your comment.