I have some house guests who will want to know the facts, figures and other details of my HMS Victory model below. So I worked on the attachment with GPT-5 (not Astra) and here's how we did. Phil

By Eric Jay Dolin I have heard Jay speak, locally, and his books are all well researched and well written. Now we need to see who can post the first review. Great summer read, you think? Phil https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GP39FM76/ref=sw_img_1?smid=&psc=1 A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail Click to see full view Play Preview The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail New York Times “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century—told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (Washington Post). From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, tribal wars, and dashed hopes, award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor’s doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed. The Wreck of the Mentor is at once a powerful story of survival and a revealing window into the great Age of Sail—a time when maritime ambition collided with local sovereignty, and when the outcome of one voyage rippled across oceans and empires.

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