White Lace or Pirates vs the Clarissa

White Lace Black Velvet

It had all began in 1738 when various scientists and
free thinkers had assembled at Norham Manor at the
behest of the eccentric and reclusive Lord Beaverton.
Amongst those present were Benjamin,discoverer
of the electrostatic properties of lightening,Berend
Vander Graffe,inventor of a primitive but functional
electrostatic engine,Jean Leyden,manufacturer of
the Franklin-Leyden Accumulator,David Bushnell,
a inventor of a submersible boat,and a puzzled
kite maker named Robert Lamb.
The chatter and hubbub in the dining hall
died away as with trumpets blaring,the curtain
at the front was raised,and in the candlelight was
revealed a water tank,on whose watery surface floated
a small two yard long cigar shaped object from which could be
heard the " clikety clak" of a Vander Graffe turntable.The minature
submersible boat,which had tiny wooden red coated figures aboard her,
came to a slowing stop as a man seated at a electrostatic control board
above the water tank pulled at a wooden lever.
A gate at one end of the water tank slid up and
out sailed a menacing pirate ship that was all black death and
gloom.
At the sight of the pirate those in the know remembered that
Lord Beaverton's daighter Clarissa had vanished twenty years
earlier when a pirate had attacked the transport she was on whilst
sailing on the Main.
The small submersible model was christened the Clarissa...