![]() Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horation Hornblower. ![]() Captain Hornblower R.N.: Hornblower and the Atropos / The Happy Return / A Ship of the Line. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. This is the fourth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C.S. In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos's size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turkish waters. ![]() Īfter near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. 1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession. ![]()
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