Sails On the Horizon: a Novel of the Napoleonic Wars
“Charles brought with him onto the cramped vessel his single sea chest, Admiral Jervis’s reports on the English victory off Cape St. Vincent, and his newly acquired steward, Timothy Attwater. He arrived with a pounding headache after a serious night of celebratory debauchery in the lower parts of Lisbon with Daniel Bevan and Stephen Winchester, which he now deeply regretted. Raven pulled her stream anchor and set sail for London almost as soon as his unsteady legs gained her deck.
Bevan and Winc...hester he left behind. They were to stay with the battered Argonaut on her slow journey to Plymouth, most likely for the breaker’s yard, after she’d been made seaworthy enough in Lisbon for the journey. Afterward, they’d all agreed to meet at Charles’s family home in Cheshire before returning to sea in his new command.
Commander Turnbull, a kindly, awkward-looking man with a face like a jackass, insisted that Charles (“the hero of St. Vincent, and wounded to boot”) take his cramped cabin for the duration of the voyage.MoreLess
Bevan and Winc...hester he left behind. They were to stay with the battered Argonaut on her slow journey to Plymouth, most likely for the breaker’s yard, after she’d been made seaworthy enough in Lisbon for the journey. Afterward, they’d all agreed to meet at Charles’s family home in Cheshire before returning to sea in his new command.
Commander Turnbull, a kindly, awkward-looking man with a face like a jackass, insisted that Charles (“the hero of St. Vincent, and wounded to boot”) take his cramped cabin for the duration of the voyage.MoreLess
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