"It was no long after dawn that Captain Hornblower came up on the quarterdeck of Lydia. Bush, the first Lieutenant, was officer of the watch, and touched his hat but did not speck to him; in a voyage which had by now lasted seven months without touching land he had learned something of his captain's likes and dislikes." And so begins Captain Horatio Hornblower: Beat To Quarters Volume I.

(Key Words: Fiction, Literature, Naval, Sea, Horatio Hornblower, Maritime, English Literature, C. S. Forester).