The Bomb Vessel

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Sheridan House, Inc., 2000 - 224 páginas
A young captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of an old Ship, the Virago, to be sent to the Baltic as a bomb vessel. Drinkwater's ambition is to turn it back into a fighting ship, but his plans are thwarted. At the same time, Drinkwater's brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt to escape the gallows. As Sir Hyde Parker's fleet approaches the Danish coast, the Virago joins the battle. Amid gales and ice, Drinkwater strives to save his ship and his brother. It is 1801 and napoleon is reaching supreme power in France and has allied himself with Tsar Paul of Russia. Against this hazardous backdrop, Drinkwater's actions in the complex and bloody battle of Copenhagen are crucial.
 

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A Fish Out of Water
3
Chapter Two OctoberNovember 18002
9
The Bomb Tender
16
A Matter of Family
28
The Pyroballogist
38
Powder and Shot
45
Action off the Sunk
51
An Unlawful Obligation
65
Councils of Timidity
121
The Sound
137
Copenhagen Road
146
All Fools Day
164
The Last Blunders
175
The Meteor Flag
186
Ace of Trumps
199
Kioge Bay
206

Batter Pudding
78
Truth in Masquerade
86
Nadir
95
A Turbot Bright
111
A Child of Fortune
213
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Captain Richard Martin Woodman retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career. Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O'Brian. Woodman is the author of some two dozen nautical novels, as well as several nonfiction books. Unlike many other modern naval historical novelists, such as C.S. Forester or O'Brian, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and spent eleven years in command. His experience ranges from cargo-liners to ocean weather ships and specialist support vessels to yachts, square-riggers, and trawlers. Said Lloyd's List of his work: "As always, Richard Woodman's story is closely based on actual historical events. All this we have come to expect-and he adds that special ambience of colourful credibility which makes his nautical novels such rattling good reads."

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