Inconvenience

[Dave Monroe]

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Inconvenience, The

3; Chums of Chance's hydrogen skyship; in Mason & Dixon H.M.S.
Inconvenience was a ship that Fender-Belly Bodine once sailed in.
Another possible source for the skyship's name can be found in Patrick
O'Brian's 1988 novel, The Letter of Marque, from a scene in which the
naval surgeon Stephen Maturin remarks to a British admiral, "We were
speaking of balloons, sir, and you were trying to recollect the
details of a device you had thought of for doing away with the
inconvenience, the mortal inconvenience, of rising too high." (p.
3875, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, W. W. Norton, 2004).

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