Here our heroes are seen boarding a French warship, using it’s starboard cat-head. Boarding was the preferred method of taking an enemy ship, because shooting it to pieces from afar did not produce such a profitable prize.
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Able Cat Emily is a crewmember on the Old Barky Sarky and appears in many AB&OS cartoons strips – usually taking about as much notice of what is going on as she is here – if that much (much as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This cartoon strip was first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in May 2012. Many ships carried livestock, especially goats, which were kept for their milk – a luxury enjoyed by the captain, who did not often find there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A previously unpublished cartoon strip. The crew are seen handling the fore course (sail) from the fore spar. They had to hold themselves onto the spar by means of standing on the foot-ropes and leaning their upper bodies over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An unpublished cartoon, but recycled from October 2010. Three sheets to the wind, obviously, means drunk. And a drink problem is not a drink problem until it becomes a problem – and I’ll fight the next man the comes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cartoons strip first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in April 2012. We find Abie and Os together with their messmates Fungus and Droopy at a funeral at sea. If a seaman was lucky enough to die at a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A previously unpublished cartoon strip. Abie and Os are sitting on the fore channel and philosophizing. This was a popular place to relax away from the hurly-burly on deck – if you could get away without being found out.
An unpublished cartoon, but recycled from September 2010. Learning may not be quite as easy to acquire as Os seems to think it is, but without an education one finds it hard to know whether or not this statement is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cartoon strip first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in March 2012. This strip shows Abie and Os as industrious as ever in the main hold. I don’t think their conversation needs any explanation (if you disagree, please post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A previously unpublished cartoon strip. I hope further explanation is unnecessary, but hope that you will ask for it (below) if you need it. Oops! A glitch with two strips. Lucky you.