A ship of war / Sean Thomas Russell.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Michael Joseph, 2012Description: 501 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780718157494 (hbk.); 9780718157500 (pbk.)Subject(s): Seafaring life -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century -- Fiction | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- FictionGenre/Form: Sea stories. | Adventure fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 LOC classification: PRSummary: Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering French plans for an imminent attack on British soil, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to give warning before it is too late. But the enemy have been lying in wait for him, and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the midst of a French squadron.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering French plans for an imminent attack on British soil, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to give warning before it is too late. But the enemy have been lying in wait for him, and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the midst of a French squadron.
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