Ship of the Line (The Hornblower Saga, Book #2)
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- Synopsis
- 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, sheep-stealers," 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 singlehandedly takes on four French ships.
- Copyright:
- 1966
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 293 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316289368
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 03/28/08
- Copyrighted By:
- C. S. Forester
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Jim Baugh
- Proofread By:
- book lover
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.