The Third Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaApril 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a sloop on a vital reconnaissance mission .
May, 1810 and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty.
