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  1_2
McKeon> Should be padeyes on the deck for tying stuff down.
McKeon> There will be about 1/2 meter front and back between the bulkhead and the ramp, then.
McKeon> There needs to be a tow strap rigged for the winch hook, otherwise it will snub up short when you winch it in close.
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  Alistair McKeon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
McKeon first met Honor Harrington when he was assigned as her executive officer aboard HMS Fearless.
After this action, McKeon was promoted to the rank of commander and given command of the destroyer HMS Troubadour, which was destroyed defending Grayson from the Masadan battlecruiser MNS Thunder of God (a.k.a.
Alistair was then promoted to Captain of the List and assigned to command the heavy cruiser HMS Prince Adrian.
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 Encyclopedia: Alistair McKeon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
McKeon was killed aboard his flagship, HMS Intransigent, at the Battle of Manticore.
After this action, McKeon was promoted to the rank of commander and given command of the destroyer HMS Troubadour, which was destroyed defending Grayson (Honorverse) from the Masadan battlecruiser MNS Thunder of God (a.k.a.
Alistair Horne is a preeminent historian, journalist and Oxford fellow who has written seventeen books, many of them on the military history of France.
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 In Enemy Hands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Honor and Admiral Hamish Alexander realize they have feelings for each other they can never express: Hamish is her superior officer, and married.
In an attempt to escape her own feelings, Honor goes with Alistair McKeon on a convoy escort mission, and falls into a trap set by Citizen Admiral Lester Tourville.
Honor, Alistair, Horace Harkness, and the rest of the crew are a held prisoner on the Havenite battlecruiser PNS Tepes.
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 On Basilisk Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The plot involves Honor being assigned to a badly-designed starship and assigned to a customs patrol that is considered a less-than-respectable assignment.
In addition to Honor Harrington, the story includes the first appearances of Alistair McKeon, Hamish Alexander, Lord Pavel Young, Andreas Venizelos, Rafael Cardones, Paul Tankersley, Mercedes Brigham and Allen Summervale.
Commander Honor Harrington of the Royal Manticoran Navy is given command of the light cruiser HMS Fearless, an old and tired warship that just came out of refit.
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 - Chapter 15
Alistair had been right, she thought, smiling at her display.
The rest stemmed from the conferences she'd had with Alistair and Alice Truman—the conferences whose purpose she'd made certain were known to all of her ships' companies.
McKeon didn't particularly like his tac officer, but despite a certain cold superciliousness, Carstairs was damned good.
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 Re: Painting starships
Indeed, her brand spanking new paint made her look like an over-aged dowager after an unsuccessful make-over" Chapter 28 - page 401 "But by the same token, we haven't exactly broadcast a description of any of our ships, and we've been known to change the paint scheme from time to time.
The "paint" used by the RMN and most other navies was liberally laced with nanotech and reactive pigments which allowed it to be programmed and altered, essentially without limit, at will.
Unfortunately, as McKeon had just suggested, that was of strictly limited utility for a warship.
www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.books.david-weber/messages/87512.html   (336 words)

  
 - Chapter 16
She'd been lamed, and until the alpha node was replaced she couldn't generate a forward Warshawski sail, but she could still maneuver and fight.
McKeon's lips tightened, but he said no more, and Honor was glad.
Whatever was happening, one thing they didn't need was for both of them to blame themselves for it.
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 Why I Go On Death Rides With Honor Harrington
Of course, some cooperation by her former subordinates McKeon and Venizelos and some judicious application of Marine force by Major Ramirez and Gunny Babcock to track down Summervale's patron doesn't hurt at all.
She's got a lot of friends from previous volumes to help her in her fight, but to see Honor go off into exile on Grayson disgraced and alone at the end of the book is very tragic and a colossal waste of her ability.
She wangles an assignment as a convoy escort for her squadron and she is joined by Alistair McKeon, her exec in the first book, who is in command of HMS Prince Adrian and is up for promotion to commodore as well.
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 Amazon@Apolyton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With Harrington out of the action, that allows charactaers like McKeon and Harkness to step up to center stage.
It is not my favorite but I still had a hard time putting it down.
"In Enemy Hands" shows Honor Harrington at her most vulnerable, and therefore is a splendid character study of her and her subordinates, most notably Captain Alistair McKeon and Chief Petty Officer Horace Harkness.
apolyton.net /amazon/item.php?ASIN=0671577700   (615 words)

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