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Ship of the Line

Ship of the Line

by C.S. Forester
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May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780316289368
ISBN10 0316289361
Series/Work OL1937788W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Back Bay Books
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

English Sea stories Fiction Fiction, action & adventure Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Historical fiction History, Naval Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character) Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction Naval History Open Library Staff Picks Peninsular War, 1807-1814

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