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Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga)

By C.S. Forester

Book information

Publisher
Back Bay Books
Year
1985
ISBN
0316289361, 9780316289368
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
334 kB (342372 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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