To Glory We Steer
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Portsmouth, 1782. His Britannic Majesty's frigate Phalarope is ordered to assist the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new commander—Richard Bolitho. To all appearances the Phalarope is everything a young captain could wish for, but beneath the surface she is a deeply unhappy ship—her wardroom torn by petty greed and ambition, her deckhands suspected of cowardice under fire and driven to near-mutiny by senseless ill-treatment.
Customer Reviews
Dreary
A young captain is given a troubled ship ripe for mutiny. He supposedly transforms it through force of character, but his character is scarcely developed by the author. A very dark picture of British naval life in the 18th century, commanded by tyrannical officers, crewed with the dregs of prisons and impressed men, treated like animals and fed on food not fit for human consumption. Yet they somehow become heroes. Hail Britannia.