Ramage And the Freebooters (2013)
“How does he expect us to do it when a couple of frigates failed?’ Ramage shrugged his shoulders and said without conviction, ‘We draw less – we can get into places a frigate can’t.’ Southwick shook his head. ‘No, sir: I know these islands pretty well and there’s deep enough water wherever they’d need to go. Leastways, they can get in close enough to see. No, I reckon I know what’s happened.’ Ramage, idly watching Grenada looming up in the distance, said: ‘Out with it, then!’ ‘Well, with all the...se schooners vanishing, the planters must be screaming over produce rotting on the quayside and freight rates rocketing, and the owners because insurance rates will be astronomical. And you can almost hear the underwriters in London yelping out as they pay for claim after claim. Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re refusing to write any more policies. Don’t blame ’em either. If neither schooner-owners nor planters get insurance…’ And Southwick was right: the planters had enormous influence in Parliament, and so had the underwriters.MoreLess
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