A Ship of the Line

Исторические приключения, Морские приключения

Автор: Forester Cecil Scott

Серия: Hornblower

Язык: английский

Год: 1985

Оригинальное название: Ship of the Line

Страниц: 61

Издатель: Back Bay Books

ISBN: 0316289361

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Аннотация

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.