HMS Surprise (novel)

HMS Surprise (novel)

HMS Surprise is a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. It is third in the Aubrey-Maturin series of stories that follow the partnership of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin. In it Aubrey gains command of HMS Surprise, a fictional version based on, but with a different back story, the historical HMS Surprise. She becomes the most important fictional ship in the Aubrey-Maturin series.

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