Kindle Notes & Highlights
I didn’t get to be bosun of one of His Majesty’s war canoes by acting the traitor and I sure as eggs ain’t going to start now!’
“O Lord God, when Thou givest to Thy servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished which yieldeth the true glory.”
In short, Hoare, the almost aristocratic self-proclaimed hammer of the French, was a poseur and social climber par excellence.
Sergeant, put him down as a seaman undertaker.’
‘You couldn’t make it up! Gunboats wivout guns is just boats.
In the main dockyard, he was able to wander at will, admiring the newly-launched second rate Temeraire, now fitting out, and a new fifth rate under construction.
