TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forester,C.S.
TI  - Ship of the line
T2  - Hornblower
SN  - 9780316289368
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Back Bay Books
KW  - Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published in 1938
N2  - 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
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