A great scenario for a game

[Enoki]

This story makes for a great Traveller scenario. It involves older (multi-term) characters of dubious skill levels using the crappiest of gear in a daring raid to destroy enemy ships! It's everything Traveller was meant to be.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2015/11/30/the-daring-calcutta-light-horse-raid/

I won't post clips from the article as you really need to read it in full. But the conversion to a Traveller scenario is obvious and would be easy to do. Your choice of who's the "light horse" (changed of course to an appropriate gentleman's "drinking society") and who's the enemy is entirely up to you.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Good story, and somewhat sad that it stayed hidden for so long.

 

[Timerover51]

Good story, and somewhat sad that it stayed hidden for so long.

Actually, I remember a book about the raid written in the 1970s.

In 1978 James Leasor wrote an account of the Ehrenfels mission in the book Boarding Party: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse. The film The Sea Wolves based on the book was made in 1980, with actors David Niven, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard and Roger Moore.[6]

From Wikipedia.

 

[Condottiere]

Relied on the Old Boys' network.