May, 1810 โ and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornbl
Hornblower a Ship of the Line
โ Scribed by Forrester, C S
- Book ID
- 107676835
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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### Product 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