Tuesday · 20:00 UTC
Squadron Drill
Line astern, line abreast, line of bearing. The boring bits that win port battles. Newcomers especially welcome.
A British naval society of Pirates of the Burning Sea. We fly the King's colours, we sail in line, and we hold our station.
Pro Rege Vigilamus — For the King We Stand Watch
Estab. 2008· Re-formed for the Legacy Sea·British colours
A naval society, not a mob.
The King's Guard is a society of captains sailing under the King's commission in Pirates of the Burning Sea. We were founded in the early days of the Caribbean and we have stood at our station through every change of weather since. Whether the seas are quiet or running red, the King's Guard turns out.
We are veterans and we are first-voyage volunteers. We are players who measure time in port-battle nights, and players who joined last Tuesday and still don't know which sail is which. All are welcome at the muster line. The only thing we ask is that you turn up, sail in formation, and don't leave a mate astern.
Steady the line. Hold the station. Answer for the man on your beam.
The code by which we sail.
We sail under the King's colours. We do not switch flags for fashion, nor for prize money, nor for spite.
You answer for the captain on your beam, in fair winds and foul. No one is left becalmed under enemy guns.
Speak with the manners of a wardroom. Disagreement is welcome; discourtesy is not. This is a society, not an alley.
At sail, hold formation and answer signals. Stations are taken seriously; orders are obeyed. There is time enough to chat in port.
Drill in good weather so you sail well in foul. Bring your crew. Bring your ship. Bring yourself ready.
We honour our enemies. A British captain salutes a French frigate that has fought her best, and pours her crew a drink.
The newest hand is held to the same standard as the oldest, and given the same patience to reach it.
The society is not the officers; the society is the captains. Lead by example, recruit by example, retire by example.
When and how we sail.
Tuesday · 20:00 UTC
Line astern, line abreast, line of bearing. The boring bits that win port battles. Newcomers especially welcome.
Friday · 20:00 UTC
Whoever the wind brings us. Bring a fifth-rate, bring a sixth-rate, bring whatever you sail well. Stand by your captain.
Saturday · By signal
If we have a port battle on the books, this is when we sail it. Watch the dispatches for the order and the muster point.
Sunday · 18:00 UTC
A no-pressure sail for new hands. Bring your questions, your first ship, and a willingness to be told things twice.
Times are UTC; the Caribbean keeps a different watch. Check the order-of-the-day in our Discord for any change to the watch bill.
Ranks and standing officers.
"Steady the line."
"Form on me, gentlemen."
"Mind your weather gauge."
"Welcome aboard. Mind the step."
By acclaim of the wardroom.
A tradition older than the Guard itself: when a captain serves with such steadiness that the wardroom feels obliged to say so out loud, his name is read at dispatches and his glass is filled by every hand present.
By order of the wardroom
CMC
Of the King's Guard, this many a watch.
For service rendered to the King's Guard in good weather and foul; for making the wardroom warmer, the line steadier, and the new hand braver; and for being, by every account, the kind of captain a society is glad to have on the muster roll —
Bill Bone — what he's done, what he's taught, the night he did that thing off Hispaniola. :|
Steady the line.
— attributed to Bill, at the rail
No glasses raised yet.Fair winds, Captain — and following seas.
News from the wardroom.
12 May 1720
On the morning of Tuesday last, two of our frigates engaged a Spanish escort of three sail and brought one to strike her colours. A full report is filed in the wardroom; honours to the captains who held the windward line.
Read the report →04 May 1720
Following our spring muster, Article IV (Discipline) has been updated to clarify the matter of signals at sail. Captains are asked to refresh themselves on the changes before next operations.
Read the revision →27 April 1720
The Guard has voted to maintain a standing watch on the Legacy server. All current captains carry their rank across; new volunteers are welcome on either tide.
Read the order →A short letter to the recruiting officer.
Fill in the lines below and we'll open your application in your email program. We aren't fussy about prose; we just want to know who you are and what you sail.
Application opens in your email program addressed to [email protected]. Prefer Discord? Step into the wardroom →
Where to find us.
In-Game
The King's GuardSociety on the British nation, Antigua & Roberts.
Founding Admiral
REPLACE_MEFor the unusual business.