It is 1843, and Captain Sir Nathaniel Drinkwater, bowed with age and honours, embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for an inspection of lighthouses on the west coast of England. The following day, tragedy strikes, and Drinkwater is confronted with his past life.
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Woodman knows his ships and the sea and is a craftsman of great ability (GUERNSEY EVENING PRESS)
Brilliantly told...the characters are real and lively, the language similar; but above all it is a convincing and compulsive seafaring story (OXFORD TIMES)
Equally as good as the rest. (TEESIDE EVENING GAZETTE)
Richard Woodman is well-known for his Nathaniel Drinkwater series of historical naval novels, a dozen other sea-stories, histories of the development of ships and works on sea-power during the Napoleonic Wars. He has also produced two widely acclaimed studies of convoys operations during the Second World War, Malta Convoys and Arctic Convoys.
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