β Scribed by The captain's cabin on board the Lion was small; even for an old sixty-four-gun ship now rated too weak to stand in the line of battle. As he looked round; Ramage reckoned that at most it could comfortably seat a dozen officers for a convivial evening and still leave room for an agile steward to haul on a corkscrew and keep everyone's glass topped up. When; in their wisdom; the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty suddenly decided that the Lion should carry Rear-Admiral Goddard across the Atlantic to take up his new appointment in Jamaica - and escort a convoy at the same time - they did not give a thought to the fact that her captain and officers would have to move over; like passengers in a crowded coach; to make room for the Admiral and his staff.
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Lieutenant Lord Ramage, in command of the Triton brig, is escorting a convoy from Barbados to Jamaica, normally a routine and tedious chore. But this time Ramage has to be especially vigilant to guard the convoy's precious cargoβa family of important French refugees. ### Review "Eminently readable