Yes, it is!
Because the British Navy was prohibited from ruling on land,
AND there came times when ‘land’
became an important naval ‘partner,’
thus was born the practice of the “stone frigate,”
a ship that was only a ship by political definition.
This one, Diamond Rock, off the coast of Martinique, was the first.
In 1803, so named
because the sun’s reflections off the side of the ship
evoked the image of a precious stone.
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
