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Originally Posted by Bluesman
You'd have to be as mad as a rat in a coffee can, and if ever there were cause for relief of a captain by his second, that would be IT, and no court would convict on mutiny.
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Sir,
I would rather be tried by the admirality for endangering the ship and its crew (not storm or seas related mind you.) before being tried for failure to engage the enemy when chance presented itself. In being the captain (assumed) that call stands with no one but myself when at sea as I would be tried for the responsibility of the ship as a whole.