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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
It's true that someone in command of a RN vessel is addressed as 'captain' by the ship's crew regardless of rank but that isn't the misconception I have heard propagated most of my life. I was lucky enough to have a primary school teacher who taught facts rather than propaganda, so the Captain Cook fallacy has grated for 50 years. Thanks to her I have also long known that Australia was invaded, not settled, that Terra Nullius was a myth, and why such a fuss is made about the First Fleet while there is near total silence about the Second Fleet. (Thank you Mrs Boyd, at the time I didn't realise what a gem you were.)
Certainly a great mariner and so probably seen by some as a pedant. After all, to be that successful he would have had to have paid great attention to detail.  |
No one ever remembers who came second
,maybe an exception can be made for Buzz Aldrin as his accomplishment has been well publicized for the last 47 years.
Cheers
