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unusual facts about The Surgeon's Mate


The Reverse of the Medal

Diana has removed to Sweden under the protection of Jagiello, a mutual friend (introduced in The Surgeon's Mate), and with all the appearance of carrying on an affair with him.


Boden

Boden's Mate, a mating pattern in chess, discovered by Samuel Boden

Bute Inlet

His grandson Charles Stuart was a master's mate on Vancouver's Discovery.

Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night

The cover was designed by Paul Whitehead, who also was the artist for Fool's Mate as well as sleeves for Van der Graaf Generator (The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other and Pawn Hearts) and Charisma labelmates Genesis (Trespass, Nursery Cryme, and Foxtrot).

Fool's mate

In the Doctor Who episode "Nightmare In Silver", a boy named Artie Maitland loses to a chess-playing Cyberman via the Fool's Mate.

Guillaume Dupuytren

Dupuytren is mentioned as a youthful acquaintance of Stephen Maturin in The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian.

Marie Ney

In the 1940s and 1950s she appeared in the films Shadow of the Past (1950), Seven Days to Noon (1950), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Simba (1955), Yield to the Night (1956), and The Surgeon's Knife (1957), among others.

Prize money

One eighth was divided among the wardroom warrant officers (surgeon, purser, and chaplain), standing warrant officers (carpenter, boatswain, and gunner), lieutenant of marines, and the master's mates.

Shortland, New South Wales

It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area and was named after Lt. John Shortland, master's mate of the Sirius, the escorting vessel to the First Fleet.

The Bosun's Mate

The Bosun's Mate is a 1914 British silent comedy film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Mary Brough, Charles Rock and Wyndham Guise.

The Eagle's Mate

The Eagle's Mate is a 1914 silent film produced by the Famous Players film company and released through Paramount Pictures.

The Surgeon

Kid You're A Dreamer by Perth band The Panics from their first album A House on a Street in a Town I'm From was used as the opening credits theme music for the series.


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