FREE H. M. S. SURPRISE PDF Patrick O'Brian | 416 pages | 25 Jul 1991 | WW Norton & Co | 9780393307610 | English | New York, United States La fragata de la película Master and Commander: la Rose-Surprise | Todo a babor He supervised the fitting out of the ship, and H. M. S. Surprise the long guns were too large to be easily reloaded, and the lower sails were also too large. He notified the authorities, who urged him to finish fitting out the ship because a major naval operation was imminent. In the following months she escorted merchant vessels along the coasts of France. On 28 September, with the corvette Bergere and under H. M. S. Surprise command of Lieutenant de Vaisseau Gouley, the two ships left Brest to sail northwest in between Ireland and the islands of the Hebrides and St Kilda to intercept enemy merchant ships. On 17 October, the ships captured a ton merchant ship Dianne. The next day the weather turned foul and the two ships were separated. She spent the remainder of H. M. S. Surprise year either H. M. S. Surprise in port or serving as a courier. Surprise was re-classed by the British as a gun sixth-rate frigatethough she carried twenty-four pounder carronades on her main deck, eight pounders on her quarter- and fore- decks and two or four long 6-pound cannons as chasers. As in the French Navy, this led to difficulty in her rating, considered a fifth rate from to but a sixth rate the rest of her commission. Also, she bore the main-mast of a gun ship, just as unusual as her large armament. Under Captain Edward HamiltonSurprise sailed in the Caribbean for several years, capturing several privateers. Hermione ' s crew had mutinied, and had sailed her into the Spanish possession of Puerto Cabello. Captain Edward Hamilton of Surprise led a boarding party to retake Hermione and, after an exceptionally bloody action, sailed her out under Spanish gunfire. Hamilton had 11 injured, four seriously, but none killed. Surprise is an important element of the series, both because of H. M. S. Surprise importance to the running plotline, and because of the emotional attachment she has earned among the characters in the book and real life fans of the series. In the late s, publisher H. M. S. Surprise. Bailey quickly ordered his crew to get out the paint and make the changes. In that era, the Royal Navy commissioned a gun frigate by this name in September The fictional Surprise is sold out of the service in The Reverse of the Medalbeing purchased by Stephen Maturin and employed first as a letter of marque and later as His Majesty's hired H. M. S. Surprise Surprise under Aubrey's command. Maturin agrees to sell the Surprise to Aubrey in The Nutmeg of Consolationthough later novels suggest that never transpired and Maturin continued to own the ship. Surprise ' s ultimate fictional fate is unknown although she was still at sea in when Aubrey receives news of his promotion to Rear-Admiral of the Blue in her great cabin at the end of Blue at the Mizzenthe last completed novel in the series. The Surprise public house in Chelsea London, established inis named after the ship with the pub sign containing an image of the ship. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other ships with the same name, see HMS Surprise. See also: Hermione mutiny and Cutting out of the Hermione. Retrieved 26 December HMS Surprise. William Collins Sons. Chapter 4. Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from October Pages using deprecated image syntax Commons category link is on Wikidata Commons category link is locally defined. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Contemporary plans of HMS Surprise. Jean Fouache, [1] Le Havre. HMS Surprise () - Wikipedia The series follows the partnership of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin during the wars against Napoleon's France. Maturin is tortured gathering intelligence. Some reviewers found the novel with "superb depictions of life", yet too full of nautical detail, while others found that detail part of the author's erudition and not in the way of the plot. The author showed "capacity for creating another completely believable world", while another H. M. S. Surprise said the novel is "stretching its genre [naval adventure] but never escaping it. A convoy including Aubrey seizes the ships carrying the gold deemed necessary by Spain to agree to join the war on the side of H. M. S. Surprise. On the quibble that Spain had not yet entered the war, the new First Lord of the Admiralty decides the vast sum is a droit of the Crown so thus not shared out with the captors. Smaller amounts will be distributed to the captains, quite opposite to the expectations of the successful convoy. The First Lord blunders into mentioning the name of intelligence agent Stephen Maturin during the proceedings, putting Maturin at risk. At the rendezvous point, Aubrey learns from a Catalan revolutionary that his friend has been captured and is being tortured by French intelligence in Port Mahon, the island having been returned to Spain in the Peace of Amiens. Aubrey leads a rescue mission, saving a ravaged Maturin and killing all of the French interrogators except one, Captain Dutourd. In England, Aubrey is taken by bailiffs and is held in a sponging-housea debtors' prison. Maturin tells Sir Joseph of his capture and Aubrey's predicament. Aubrey's marriage to Sophia Williams is deferred, as her mother insists that he be debt-free. Maturin gets Aubrey an advance on his grant of money and he is released. Sophia meets Aubrey in a coach in the middle of the night before he takes command of his new ship HMS Surpriseand they promise to marry no one else. Aubrey hopes to find the H. M. S. Surprise squadron commanded by Admiral Linois, who once took him prisoner. Surprise is caught in the doldrums north of the equator, and the crew show signs of scurvy. Two serious storms strike; the officer who rowed him out is drowned and Surprise is damaged and driven out of H. M. S. Surprise. Maturin survives on bird-fouled H. M. S. Surprise and the blood of boobiesand claims that these days under the hot sun have restored his health after the H. M. S. Surprise. They stop along the coast of Brazil for fresh foods and supplies, and a sloth; this is Maturin's first time in the New World. They put in at Rio for mail. Refitted and repainted, Surprise goes wide around the Cape of Good Hopeheld by the Dutch who are allied with Napoleon. In the waters of the Antarctic Oceanthey endure a severe storm. The ambassador becomes very ill. They put into Bombay in India to refit after the storms and to rest the ambassador. Maturin meets a local street-wise child, a girl named Dil, who eagerly shows him around the city. Maturin is watching a parade with Dil when he sees Diana Villiers, who has returned to Bombay ahead of her companion, Richard Canning. They agree to visit, and spend several days together, at the end of which Maturin asks her to marry him. She does not reply H. M. S. Surprise, but promises she will when Surprise stops in Calcutta. Maturin finds Dil dead and robbed of the silver bracelets that he had given her; he supervises her cremation on the shore. The ambassador dies before reaching the Sunda Strait so the Surprise sets sail for Britain. Surprise engages its smallest ship, the corvette Berceaushredding her rigging, then speeds back to the China Fleet to warn them and organise a defence. Choosing the largest ships of the China Fleet, Aubrey dresses them as men-of-war and sends some of his officers to help them fight. The French squadron closes on the Surprise H. M. S. Surprise the large Indiamen. The Surprise engages the largest French warship, the Marengo ; she is outgunned and in peril when one of the Indiamen engages the French ship from the other side, forcing Marengo to disengage. Damage forces the French squadron to abandon the chase to refit. Ashore in Calcutta, Aubrey receives an enthusiastic welcome from the merchants, including Canning, who are happy to refit the Surprise. As a personal reward, they allow him to transport jewels as freight, which will earn him a good prize upon his arrival in England. During the refit, Canning finds Maturin in the company of Villiers. In a fit of jealousy Canning slaps Maturin, and Maturin challenges him to a duel. Canning intends to kill Maturin, but wounds him. Maturin intends to wound Canning, but kills him. Maturin convinces Villiers to return to England on a merchant ship that will leave immediately, rather than tend to him as he recovers aboard the Surprise. With the help of Aubrey and M'Allister, Maturin stoically operates on himself, removing the bullet lodged near his heart. Aubrey tends to his friend in the worst period of fever, where the secretive man speaks all his secrets. Aubrey sends a note to Sophia, asking her to meet at Madeira, knowing he can clear his debts. In port, Maturin finds that Villiers left him a note returning the ring he gave her, and travelled with Mr Johnstone from America, who had visited her in Calcutta. Sophia is not there. She promises to marry H. M. S. Surprise once they return to England.