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Is Court Martialed

Horatio Hornblower · January 16, 1953 · 18 min · 2,456 words

The transcript of “Is Court Martialed”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast January 16, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Horatio Hornblower plays Horatio Hornblower free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Call all hands, speak to quarters. I must have a better one broadside into it, and please, Captain Bush, point us on target. Then stop, Freddy. Presenting Michael Redgrave as C.S. Barsters, indomitable man of the sea, a racial horn blower.

I have to sit at my ease, and I have looked back down the ears and smiled at the foolish hopes

and fears of the man that I was. But my fears were well enough funded then. The navy and the public were hard masters. And there was no game-zaying the fact that I had surrendered and lost my ship, the Sutherland at Rosas.

The odds had been overwhelming, and I had fought to the last, and I was acting under the orders of Admiral Leighton, but... I had struck my colours, and that was an act which my lords of the Admiralty at Whitehall would find it hard to forgive.

I sat solitary in my small cabin on the victory end, and listened grimly to the signs of the captains and admirals who were to try me. I'm in assembled and still they come. Does it need the whole British Navy to try one Captain?

Right, like the vultures fucking to a feast. Captain Carrington, the Lord is the court ready. I'm a Lord. There is only Captain Hornblar's sword to place on the table. Ah, there he comes now. Thank you.

Fine sword, Captain Carrington. Here's the Lord. It was sword of one hundred guineas value. It was presented to Captain Hornblar by the patriotic fund for his victory over the Spanish a significant that a wonderful achievement that will own.

Yes. Kitty, if you come to this, I always regard his home blow as a very fine officer. Yes, Lord. I still do. That is a very improper amount to make to the president of the court captain, Canada.

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