1778: Der amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskampf stellt die Royal Navy vor eine harte Bewährungsprobe. Nur deshalb erhält der junge Leutnant Bolitho sein erstes selbständiges Kommando: auf der Korvette Sparrow als Begleitschutz...
Nick Sandman's spine was shattered by a bullet in the Falklands. He has no money and no prospects, only a dream of sailing far away from his troubles on his boat, Sycorax. But Sycorax is as crippled as he is, and to make her seaworthy again, Nick...
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...