The Hundred Days (novel) - Ships

Ships

  • British
    • Commodore's squadron
      • HMS Pomone - thirty-eight; Captain Pomfret; replaced by Captain Vaux
      • HMS Surprise
      • HMS Dover - thirty-two; Captain Ward
      • HMS Rainbow - Post-ship; Captain Brawley
      • HMS Ganymede - Post-ship; Captain Cartwright
      • HMS Briseis - a brig; Captain Harris
    • HMS Hamadryad
    • Other
      • HMS Royal Sovereign - Lord Keith's Flagship of Mediterranean Fleet
      • HMS Implacable - Lord Barmouth's Flagship of Mediterranean Fleet
  • French:
    • His Most Christian Majesty's frigate Caroline
    • Ardent - thirty-two gun Buonapartist frigate; Captain Charles de La Tour
    • Cerbere - frigate; Captain Delalande

Read more about this topic:  The Hundred Days (novel)

Famous quotes containing the word ships:

    “The northern sky rose high and black
    Over the proud unfruitful sea,
    East and west the ships came back
    Happily or unhappily....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
    —James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)

    “A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)