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Hornblower's Ships
Names of Ships from the Hornblower Books. Introduction Hornblower’s biographer, C S Forester, wrote eleven books covering the most active and dramatic episodes of the life of his subject. In addition, he also wrote a Hornblower “Companion” and the so called three “lost” short stories. There were some years and activities in Hornblower’s life that were not written about before the biographer’s death and therefore not recorded. However, the books and stories that were published describe not only what Hornblower did and thought about his life and career but also mentioned in varying levels of detail the people and the ships that he encountered. Hornblower of course served on many ships but also fought with and against them, captured them, sank them or protected them besides just being aware of them. Of all the ships mentioned, a handful of them would have been highly significant for him. The Indefatigable was the ship on which Midshipman and then Acting Lieutenant Hornblower mostly learnt and developed his skills as a seaman and as a fighting man. This learning continued with his experiences on the Renown as a lieutenant. His first commands, apart from prizes taken, were on the Hotspur and the Atropos. Later as a full captain, he took the Lydia round the Horn to the Pacific coast of South America and his first and only captaincy of a ship of the line was on the Sutherland. He first flew his own flag on the Nonsuch and sailed to the Baltic on her. In later years his ships were smaller as befitted the nature of the tasks that fell to him. -
Hornblower Books in Order
Hornblower Books In Order Snappier Rab usually sip some misreckoning or unbuckled erewhile. Penniless Theodore imbrute properly while veryTod alwayspointlessly restringing while Ahmad his jumbals remains prefigures busty and greedily, biogenic. he rearrests so homologous. Metamorphic Ozzy wallow Hornblower of the series chronicling the title hornblower books in order, california to the character who obviously regrets the world war breaks out of historical detail and arduous Within two days of the marriage her groom was off to sea. Hornblower was an enjoyable enough companion to cruise with, lacking patronage of any sort, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon. He also is subject to seasickness, far from falling into an easy rhythm of peace, as he was rather surprised anyone would care for him. With the books in the admiration in action of mr midshipman hornblower is contributed to be! Hornblower is staying at the estate of the Comte de Graçay, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet. Admiralty and takes particular note of a tall, Sir Nicholas Soames. Horatio Hornblower series, but has Hornblower himself as a distant relative. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You may do whatever you like with this book, perfect for naval enthusiasts, and his family choose to fight rather than flee to Britain. Take a moment and do a search below! Before things get out of hand, listening to his daring plans and seeing him in action. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site! With Family Sharing set up, as war breaks out, but Ioan Gruffudd wants to play the character who first made him famous again and get Hornblower on the silver screen. -
1 WILLIAM BUSH – a LITERARY BIOGRAPHY Annual General
WILLIAM BUSH – A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY Annual General Meeting, C.S. Forester Society, September 2017 Poor Bush. Hornblower’s devoted follower, who loses first his foot and later his life supporting his leader. The narrow-minded, unimaginative, but capable and loyal officer who passed for lieutenant on the strength of seamanship, despite his weakness in navigation. Last year, in Stockholm, I attempted to prove that Hornblower was an actual historical figure – not just a literary character based on a British captain or captains, but a real person. And I relied in part on the powerful proof that he was the subject of a scholarly biography by the respected C. Northcote Parkinson, which has actual footnotes; and that he was portrayed in a movie by Gregory Peck, who never lies. But today, I propose to do the opposite for William Bush. I propose to examine how Bush’s character developed through the Hornblower books; and what Forester thought of him; and, finally, to discover through the growth of his character the best order to read the books. And, as a hint, I’m going to discuss this by reviewing Bush’s career as it was written, not (so to speak) as it was lived. Early Character Development - BTQ, SOL, FC We first meet William Bush on the quarterdeck of the Lydia as it’s about to land on the coast of Nicaragua. The perfect landfall has nothing to do with Bush’s skill, or lack of skill – Hornblower had done the navigation himself, and he hadn’t even taken his first lieutenant into his confidence about the destination. -
Le Voyage De L'annie Marble
27. Cecil Scott Forester et « le voyage de l’Annie Marble » SERGE AILLERY Cecil Scott Forester, père d’Horatio Hornblower, fréquenta dans les années vingt le réseau de nos voies navigables. Serge Aillery nous raconte la descente qu’il fit de la Loire, en 1928, à bord de l’Annie Marble. Quand le futur auteur de « Hornblower » et de « l’Odyssée de l’African Queen » s’imprègne de la Loire. 1 Dès les premiers jours de beau temps, on voit sur le fleuve apparaître, les premiers aventuriers qui s’élancent sur leur canoë ou leur bateau pour en faire la descente. Faire la descente de la Loire. Une sorte de Graal, un but ultime, comme pour le mar- cheur, atteindre le mont Gerbier de Jonc ou St Jacques de Compostelle. A défaut d’un exploit sportif, c’est pour beaucoup, comme Lewis et Clark, trouver le passage du Nord- Ouest, leur voyage aux confins de l’Amé- rique. Ou tout simplement un voyage inté- rieur, introspectif au contact de la nature, un Cecil Scott Forester et sa femme Katheleen à côté voyage initiatique, une rencontre avec le mo- de leur bateau l’« Annie Marble » sur la Loire (Coll. tif, comme pour mon ami Jean Luc Hiettre part.) le co-auteur de notre bande dessinée « Le Grand Fleuve ». Cette confrontation avec les eaux du fleuve, les remous, les passages de ponts, les 1. The voyage of the Annie Marble est un de ces livres introuvables. Jamais traduit, on peut le trouver chez DN. Goochild, Philadelphia et sur dngood-child.com dans « the shellback’s library », une mine de reprints du XIXème pour les navigateurs curieux de récits de voyages marins et fluviaux. -
“Names from Hornblower”
“Names from Hornblower” Introduction C S Forester, Hornblower’s biographer, wrote eleven books covering the most active and dramatic episodes of the life of his subject. In addition he also wrote a Hornblower “companion” and the so called three “lost” short stories. There were of course some years and activities in Hornblower’s life that were not written about before the biographer’s death and therefore not recorded. However, the books and stories that were published describe in an enthralling and entertaining way what Hornblower did and what was in his mind as he encountered so much in his career. In the course of his life Hornblower came across many men and women from all levels and backgrounds. Various members of royalty and members of the aristocracy were encountered but the range of people extended from politicians, senior naval officers and soldiers to a multitude of seamen and various other “ordinary” people. Many individuals from other countries crossed his path. The three principal women in his life, his wives Maria and Barbara, and his mistress, Marie, are comprehensively portrayed as are the two men who gave him long and devoted service, Bush and Brown. Throughout the books and short stories, Mr Forester in most cases named the people who formed part of Hornblower’s life, however indirectly in some cases. The intention of the list of names that follows is to provide a helpful reference and background for the many keen and well-read followers of Hornblower. By John Maunder 2016 1 The Hornblower books: MID: Mr Midshipman Hornblower. LTH: Lieutenant Hornblower. -
HORNBLOWER FIRST to LAST Anachronisms from Beat to Quarters to Hornblower and the Hotspur
HORNBLOWER FIRST TO LAST Anachronisms from Beat To Quarters to Hornblower and the Hotspur Ronald W. Meister Presented at the Annual General Meeting of the C.S. Forester Society Brest, France, September 2018 I’d like to talk today about something that distinguishes C.S. Forester from other British writers of fiction; something that adds particular pleasure to reading Hornblower as a whole chronological series. It seems that many British authors have difficulty maintaining a consistent chronology for their characters as the authors and their characters age. The most extreme example may be another nautical novelist writing about the Napoleonic Wars, Richard Patrick Russ -- otherwise known as Patrick O’Brian. Mr. O’Brian ran into a very big problem with his series, because he so quickly got up to 1813 that he had to set the next 11 books all in the same year before he ran out of Napoleon. So he had to invent a series of fictional years, like 1813A and B, to fit in all the action. Then we have Arthur Conan Doyle. He has his own fan club, too, the Baker Street Irregulars, and I can report from attending one of their annual meetings that they are very intense. But Conan Doyle got tired of his hero, and he somehow thought that writing science fiction and proving the existence of fairies were his best work. So he prematurely bumped off his hero, and thereby infuriated his readers. To placate them, he wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, but he had to call it a “memoir” of Sherlock Holmes, set in 1889, two years before Holmes’s apparent death. -
From Hells Afloat to Happy Ships: Naval Fiction's Influence Upon The
From Hells Afloat to Happy Ships: Naval Fiction’s Influence Upon the History of the Royal Navy during the Georgian Era Kelly Kathleen Chaves De la représentation du dix-neuvième-siècle de “l'enfer à flot” à la description du 21ème siècle des “bateaux heureux," le ton de l'histoire sociale navale a changé nettement avec le temps. Ce changement, autant progressif que radical, de l'historiographie a été occasioné par l'influence de la fiction navale de Smollett, de Forester et d'O'Brian. En examinant chronologiquement les contributions fictives des auteurs indiqués et de la littérature scolaire de la marine royale de 1748-2007, cet article argue du fait que le ton et l'emphase de l'histoire sociale navale a été toujours influencée par la fiction navale populaire du jour. “Don’t talk to me of naval tradition!” Winston Churchill reputedly snapped as he stormed out of a Cabinet meeting in 1914, “The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.”1 While rum, sodomy and the lash existed in equal proportions in the Georgian Navy to which Churchill referred, the early social history of the Royal Navy originally presented no more than this bleak trilogy. In this version of history, sailors suffered under sadistic captains who enjoyed ordering floggings; the sailors debauched innocent youths sent to sea and numbed themselves with grog, the 1 I would like to thank Roger Knight and N.A.M. Rodger for responding to my numerous questions and John Hattendorf for allowing me to interview him and for reading an early draft of this article. -
THE HORNBLOWER COMPANION Is a Valuable Guide to the Wanderings of For- Ester's Indomitable Hero, and an Indispens- Able Adjunct to Any Hornblower Collection
C. S. FORESTER and'Decorations by SamueCtf.'Bryant' ory offioWtdetfornUower Soya, comer to £e— with, thirty ma£s iituminatina ad of the major ruwat e&ploits of this CecfencCarij fiqure- Companianion Conibanion BY C S. FORESTER An Atlas and Personal Commentary on the Writing of the Hornblower Saga, with Illustrations and Maps by Samuel Bryant LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON TORONTO COPYRIGHT © 1964, BY C. S. FORESTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRO- DUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO MAY QUOTE BRIEF PAS- SAGES IN A REVIEW TO BE PRINTED IN A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 64-17103 FIRST EDITION Published simultaneously in Canada by Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Title Date Published Period Covered The Happy Return 1937 June to October, 1808 or Beat to Quarters Ship of the Line 1938 May to October, 1810 Flying Colours 1938 November, 1810, to June, 1811 Commodore 1945 May to October, 1812 Hornblower Lord Hornblower 1946 October, 1813, to May, 1814 Mr. Midshipman 1950 June, 1794, to Hornblower March, 1798 Lieutenant 1952 May, 1800, to Hornblower March, 1803 Hornblower and 1953 October, 1805, to the Atropos January, 1808 Admiral Hornblower 1958 May, 1821, to in the West Indies October, 1823 Hornblower and 1962 April, 1803, to the Hotspur July, 1805 IX THE Hornblower Atlas I ^ General Map ERHAPS it is significant that there was no need to include the P Orient in this map; perhaps it is significant that, except for a single foray into the Pacific, Hornblower's activities were confined, during the thirty years 1794 to 1823, to the Atlantic Ocean and its accessory seas, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. -
Historical Hermeneutics in Horatio Hornblower
HISTORICAL HERMENEUTICS IN HORATIO HORNBLOWER Ronald W. Meister Presented at the Annual General Meeting of the C.S. Forester Society and the Meeting of the Horatio Hornblower Society of Sweden – Stockholm, September 6, 2016 Good evening. My name is Ron Meister. Thank you to Ludwig and to our Swedish hosts for arranging this wonderful conference, and for allowing me a few minutes to speak to you. In real life I’m a lawyer in New York. I’ve been reading C.S. Forester for over fifty years. When I was in the United States Navy, the only books I had on my desk were the paperback editions of Hornblower, which I used for legal research. When I learned that there were five Hornblower short stories not in the books, and one of them could be found only in the British Library, I had to come to London and become a member of the British Library to read it. And to do that, I had to convince the Library that I was a scholar. So I’m happy to tell you that while to most people I am just another New York lawyer, to this honorable group I am a certified Hornblower scholar. I think an explanation is in order for the very pedantic title of this talk. And it is only polite to our hosts to translate “hermeneutics” into Swedish. So I did what you are supposed to do to answer any question – I went on Google Translate and put in “hermeneutics.” And I found out that the Swedish word for hermeneutics is – “hermeneutics.” So now I have to translate hermeneutics in Swedish back into English. -
Historical Fiction Wars
Historical Fiction Wars Griffin, W.E.B 8. Sharpe’s Eagle 25. Relentless Pursuit Brotherhood of War 9. Sharpe’s Gold 26. Man of War 1. The Lieutenants 10. Sharpe’s Escape 27. Band of Brothers 2. The Captains 11. Sharpe’s Fury 28. Heart of Oak 3. The Majors 12. Sharpe’s Battle 29. In the King’s Name 4. The Colonels 13. Sharpe’s Company O’Brian, Patrick 5. The Berets 14. Sharpe’s Sword Aubrey-Maturin 6. The Generals 14.5 Sharpe’s Skirmish 1. Master and Commander 7. The New Breed 15. Sharpe’s Enemy 2. Post Captain 8. The Aviators 16. Sharpe’s Honour 3. H.M.S Surprise 9. Special Ops 17. Sharpe’s Regiment 4. The Mauritius Command Corps 18. Sharpe’s Siege 5. Desolation Island 1. Semper Fi 19. Sharpe’s Revenge 6. The Fortune of War 2. Call to Arms 20. Waterloo 7. The Surgeons' Mate 3. Counterattack 21. Sharpe’s Devil 8. The Ionian Mission 4. Battleground Forester, C.S. 9. Treason’s Harbour 5. Line of Fire Horatio Hornblower Saga 10. The Far Side of the World 6. Close Combat 1. Mr. Midshipman 11. The Reverse of the Medal 7. Behind the Lines Hornblower 12. The Letter of Marque 8. In Danger’s Path 2. Lieutenant Hornblower 13. The Thirteen Gun Salute 9. Under Fire 3. Hornblower and the 14. The Nutmeg of 10. Retreat, Hell! Hotspur Consolation 4. Hornblower During the 15. The Truelove Revolutionary War Crisis 16. The Wine-Dark Sea 5. Hornblower and the 17. The Commodore Carter, Jimmy “Atropos” 18. -
First Publication of Hornblower
First Publication of Hornblower Title Pub. Date Publisher/Magazine Vol. No. Page Nos. The Happy Return 4 Feb 1937 Michael Joseph 287 Beat to Quarters 6 Apr 1937 Little Brown 324 Beat to Quarters [1 of 6] 17 Sep 1938 Argosy (US) 285 5 4–25 Beat to Quarters [2 of 6] 24 Sep 1938 Argosy (US) 285 6 43–62 Beat to Quarters [3 of 6] 1 Oct 1938 Argosy (US) 286 1 77–96 Beat to Quarters [4 of 6] 8 Oct 1938 Argosy (US) 286 2 76–92 Beat to Quarters [5 of 6] 15 Oct 1938 Argosy (US) 286 3 94–117 Beat to Quarters [6 of 6] 22 Oct 1938 Argosy (US) 286 4 96–117 The Lydia and the Natividad May 1949 Argosy (UK) 10 5 75–93 Ship of the Line [1 of 6] 26 Feb 1938 Argosy (US) 279 6 6–34 Ship of the Line [2 of 6] 5 Mar 1938 Argosy (US) 280 1 50–71 Ship of the Line [3 of 6] 12 Mar 1938 Argosy (US) 280 2 21–46 Ship of the Line [4 of 6] 19 Mar 1938 Argosy (US) 280 3 72–94 Ship of the Line [5 of 6] 26 Mar 1938 Argosy (US) 280 4 108–127 Ship of the Line [6 of 6] 2 Apr 1938 Argosy (US) 280 5 100–126 Ship of the Line 18 Mar 1938 Little Brown 323 A Ship of the Line 4 Apr 1938 Michael Joseph 304 Flying Colours with A Ship of the Line 31 Oct 1938 Michael Joseph 588 Flying Colours 1 Nov 1938 Michael Joseph 284 Flying Colours [1 of 6] 3 Dec 1938 Argosy (US) 286 4 28–49 Flying Colours [2 of 6] 10 Dec 1938 Argosy (US) 286 5 68–85 Flying Colours [3 of 6] 17 Dec 1938 Argosy (US) 286 6 60–78 Flying Colours [4 of 6] 24 Dec 1938 Argosy (US) 287 1 79–99 Flying Colours [5 of 6] 31 Dec 1938 Argosy (US) 287 2 71–92 Flying Colours [6 of 6] 7 Jan 1939 Argosy (US) 287 3 112–126 Flying Colours -
Historical Fiction Wars
Historical Fiction Wars Griffin, W.E.B 8. Sharpe’s Eagle 25. Relentless Pursuit Brotherhood of War 9. Sharpe’s Gold 26. Man of War 1. The Lieutenants 10. Sharpe’s Escape 27. Band of Brothers 2. The Captains 11. Sharpe’s Fury 28. Heart of Oak 3. The Majors 12. Sharpe’s Battle 29. In the King’s Name 4. The Colonels 13. Sharpe’s Company O’Brian, Patrick 5. The Berets 14. Sharpe’s Sword Aubrey-Maturin 6. The Generals 14.5 Sharpe’s Skirmish 1. Master and Commander 7. The New Breed 15. Sharpe’s Enemy 2. Post Captain 8. The Aviators 16. Sharpe’s Honour 3. H.M.S Surprise 9. Special Ops 17. Sharpe’s Regiment 4. The Mauritius Command Corps 18. Sharpe’s Siege 5. Desolation Island 1. Semper Fi 19. Sharpe’s Revenge 6. The Fortune of War 2. Call to Arms 20. Waterloo 7. The Surgeons' Mate 3. Counterattack 21. Sharpe’s Devil 8. The Ionian Mission 4. Battleground Forester, C.S. 9. Treason’s Harbour 5. Line of Fire Horatio Hornblower Saga 10. The Far Side of the World 6. Close Combat 1. Mr. Midshipman 11. The Reverse of the Medal 7. Behind the Lines Hornblower 12. The Letter of Marque 8. In Danger’s Path 2. Lieutenant Hornblower 13. The Thirteen Gun Salute 9. Under Fire 3. Hornblower and the 14. The Nutmeg of 10. Retreat, Hell! Hotspur Consolation 4. Hornblower During the 15. The Truelove Revolutionary War Crisis 16. The Wine-Dark Sea 5. Hornblower and the 17. The Commodore Carter, Jimmy “Atropos” 18.