by Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 1, 2008 at 01:11 AM
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:18:44 -0500, Stephen Graham
<graham1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Kuba wrote:
>> Hi, I'm translating a biographical note about Samuel Beal and I'm stuck
>> with word "Sybile". The text goes:
>>
>> "After some time had passed, he became a chaplain in the Royal Navy. He
>> was on the Sybile during the China War of 1856-58."
>>
>> The word "Sybile" is italic. Do you know what the Sybile is? Is it a
>> ****p maybe?
>
>It's presumably a ****p of the Royal Navy. Standard convention is to
>italicize ****p names in written material.
You will find that Sybile was a 44 gun Frigate.
Eric Stevens
