May 23, 2025 • 20 mins
Follows the naval adventures of a British officer during the Napoleonic Wars, highlighting his leadership and bravery. The series combines historical context with maritime action.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hold all hands picked the quarters, all Africa stand by
this time of beer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One broadside, in't worry to please Captain Bush point us.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Some pocket this stops, yes already?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Is that Michael Redgrave, a CS Forester's indomino Man of
the Sea, Ratio Hornblower. I say that the imitation is
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the sincerest form of flattery. Well, Lieutenant Mount, who commanded
the bomb catch hearty attached to my Baltic squadron, Well,
he'd grown to imitate me, and in every gesture and speech,
and well, but I had other things on my mind.
Bonaparte's forces were laying siege to the Russian defenders outside
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the city of Rigan. Imitation. Well, the art of war
seems to be that of imitation. Well, I definitely want so.
In the belief upon Kaisowitz, a Prussian colonel who had
deserted Bonaparte in order to oppose him, and who was
showing me the Russian earthworks and the lions.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You we observed from a dahan blower from dis vantage
point up here on the gallery of the church tower,
we can see spread out before us the whole operation.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maiden is attempting to move up his heavy guns and
classic method sir.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now from the line after a river diagonality up to
the pine boots. He has dug a tread. It is
protected with best works. Huge baskets later feed with earth
the classic method.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I see them from the pine woods. Another diagonal trench.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, and so on, sick sack. Each get close at
our lines, and Tilly has sided breasted works behind which
to imploy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's happy up to yes, yes, but how long before
they're in range? She've judged two weeks? Two weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It has been done this way since the days off season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, nobody will deny that Bonaparte wants to be another Caesar.
But you know, guns heavy enough to battle down those breastworks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's most difficult.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I've got mortars aboard my bomb catches. If we could,
we could level him no time, And why not do so? Commodore,
I said, if we could, But that river isn't deep enough,
sandbar shallows, quicksands. No, No, we'd run a ground before
we got within range. I see, So we must carry
on the five hours Saints Betty telephone because of it.
(03:55):
There are some things that even the British Navy cannot do.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I stood, nothing was impossible to the British lady. I apologize, commodore,
I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I withheld the words that came rushing to my lips. Goodwill,
even between allies, is sometimes a frail matter. Earlier we'd
been warm friends, But now that the French approaches were
moving towards Riga, I was asking why the Russian guns
couldn't stop the enemy, and they were asking why my
ship's guns couldn't do the same. So I hurried back
to Riga. There on the waterfront, I ran across left
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Tenant Mound. It's dusty hereabout. I photoed as dry as
a camel. Almost mind if you completed your business. I
have a moment before going back aboard the non citizens.
There's an inn over there. Perhaps you would join me
in a glass of this odd beverage that they call
pod gun. You missing, good man, I said, oh, yes, sir, yes,
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I do. Sometimes reason I'm not. Sometimes in the morning,
just before I opened my eyes, I think of home.
There's honeysuckle outside my place in Hampshire. It comes in
the window, sweet and strong as as perfume. You're married, man, yes, sir, wrong,
little more than a yes. Children, we're expecting wansa any day.
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Now we're both hoping for a son. So I sent
a letter to my wife. The cam carried it on
her boy's back might be there by now. I wrote
her that if it's a boy, yeah, I told her
to name him Horatio. Oh I did. If you've no objection,
no reason that could sult me, mister mand, it's a
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common enough heah, listen the gunfire. M Well, mind, it
seems we're not back in England among the holleysucond going
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back on board the none such. I was both touched
and irritated by man's hero worship. What glorified me in
his eyes? I certainly couldn't imagine, not when my ship
stood idle in the midst of battle line of trenches.
Here at the bat of the ear, the main flank
and stores are behind the dyke. Here cool water is
close enough to spit on them. Oh, come look at
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the chart show water bush too shallow for us. I
mentioned that to Plaza Wiz. He was not impressed. Land soldiers. Well,
at least you understood it, and mind understood.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well that's a good young officer, Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He's a fine future too, you know, I find out
quite an affection young mind lives in Hampshire, he says,
has a home there, wife and a child on the way.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
How's he now?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I never even knew he was married, nor did I
never thought to inquire, not before today. I had a
drink with him today, good officer. I'd only just come
in from the breastworks, dusty road from there to read,
and my float was as dry as a as a camel.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What's that, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
As a camel.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
By heaven bush?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Why didn't I think of that before? What's a wool gathering?
Sentimental talk about home and all that nonsense? Push? A
man should keep his mind on his business, and our
business is war. Where's a messenger that you don't I
come coments to the officer of the watch.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Will he please make signal to the bump catch Harvey
for mister Mann to meet.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Me on sore at once. It's coming to.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Canvanisvis and general less?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Now fIF denmand and I may have your ear also
we play your comrad However, I believe it is a
fool's there and them which you're right here in such haste?
Why you see you will use camels. We have no camels.
This is not a Sahara. The Comodore is an expert
on ships. Has cameras are told ships of the desert,
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He's an expert on them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It shall we get down to business? Well, I hope not.
The allies in the center, clemens, while we talk the
Frenchman move ever closer and closer. Well in this instance, gentlemen,
a camel is enabled term. Mister Mander, will you introduce
these gentlemen to the meaning of the word camel. Yes,
a camel is a method of reducing the draft of
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a ship of a kind of cabins. As the commodore
has already pointed out, the water in the river is
very shallow, too shallow for our bomb ketches to come
within range of the n Yes. Yes, I've been holding
over and over. So if two loaded vessels are lashed tightly,
one on each side of the bomb catch, and are
then emptied of their loads, it will lighten all three
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and raise.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Them farther out of the water.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You can, out of the water.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I do not yet comprehend.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Generally, you have some barges in riga, Yes, barges drawing
the more than a couple of feet of water. When empty,
we will load them with sand them empty out the sand.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The bomb catch could be lifted clean out of the water.
See and did we get close enough to bring the
guns to bear exactly?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
General, we may come and dear two barges, big ones
preference on.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Good?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh man, there's only one problem, Yes, sir, are you
going to steer them all drawing less than two.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Feet of water?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That will be almost unmanageable. That's truser. They will drift
at the mercy of the winter, unless mister man by
George a Danube brodder. What General, let's not that's a
very large auxiliary rudder set well behind the ships. If
it's big enough, it will compensate for the lack of
bottom to the keels. If you say so, Man, you
would also better pierce the sides of the barges and
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use oars as well. Yes, sir, good, well, we'll proceed
at once. Along you estimate, Man, i'd say by tomorrow noons.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Tomorrow noons you disagree.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
If i'm guys, you come witho hornblower. I did not
follow you and your cameras.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I didn't understand about them.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But these past few minutes I have been observing the
activities of the enemy. Please take these tennis comprehency for
your path.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We are beginning to move up the big guns by
tomorrow after noon it where it may be to day.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So the art of war was not entirely after all,
just as we had refused to accept the inevitable, exactly
so had the French Marshal Meydoor tried to hasten his
timetable welcome. The camels progressed with orderly, fantic speed. The
barges were brought out from Riga. The harvey was left
between them. Torches reddened the darkness as the men labored
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to quicken the task to be done, and by dawn
Lieutenant Man was able to start toward the river. Like
three giant water bugs fastened together, the bodies in the
bumb kitch began to move.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Horse po Ti pull hod up.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
This wors good by r Bar.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
We don't have steering, joy of the man.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I knows that they're not deeping up in the water
to get any bite against the current or the wind.
The Daniel rudder doesn't compensate. Even though rudder, we need
a stronger pull and we haven't got it. You better
drop banks, the man. But the French guns are moving
up It'll do us no good to go on like this.
I've draft, maybe a shallow but we'll We'll only pile
up in the show water, pile up and sit there
on the should watching the French batteries pound our allies.
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There must be some solution of let's hope we find it.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, we must find it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Rob Banks, the man my eyes up what hand had
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French guns were moving up into position to attack the
Russian descenters outside Riga, and despite our bright promises, we
seemed unable to give aid to Willies. We'd raised the
Harvey by lashing her between two emptied barges, but the
windom can't approving too much for us to handle. It
was an hour after DRM and on the deck of
the Hobby the young face of Lieutenant Mind was gray
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with fatigue and helplessness. We've got much time less, so
have we much. Only the wind of change, if it
would back around behind us instead of being off the started. Besides,
the French guns will be in position by noon. Yes,
if the wind shifted, we'd be in position too, And
shallow water right on Bony's flank thirteen inch shells loaded
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with the explosive.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Five to mortar.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That must be some replacement for a brother.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I trust there is.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Heading for the church tower. I took with me a
warm feeling the young man, and also took a Signalman Summers,
to rig a pole so that we could let the
bomb catch know the effect of its mortar fire. Glonel
van Klasivitz watched these operations with me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Hellijo signals, ready, boys, Dave.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Summers, stand by pisa urvan Katz. The French siege guns
are in position.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Come John below any moment that she opened fire?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Were the boat of yours moving up river?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now? Colonel, Oh, yes, it moves the spino It's an
awkward craft that moves as fast as it can.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
The French teach cans will be set up behind him.
Press is he the are piercing holding a breath word
to allow the Mussles to protest at that I used
it against pressed word. The Harvey carries a mortar.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh yes right, ject yes very high. Once in position,
the shelves will drop down as it from the sky.
I can see the hopes General will be here at
any moment to observe personally.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
As Governor General of Rita. For silent shunder.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He will be very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Should your plants say.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I also shall be very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Summers, there's a ready flag going up on Harvey.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, acknowledge.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Stand by to observe, Moti, Commodore Flower, your kits is
ready at last?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
What? Oh yeah, yes, general is not at last.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I shall stand by your side. Please to describe to me,
I will serve. The mortar is being loaded.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's med by punting the entire ship like an arrow
at the target. A Summers make signal to Harvey on target,
fire at will.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
On target park will.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
If one has been fired without delay as fast as.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Possible from now, I'm.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's what what the brest works says. Say big level
a seeds con destroyed. Look the muzzle is spit quite open.
Not a gun destroyed, Sir, there's a French horse thorne
battery of the moon.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You say that, Summers, coming up from the rasser, you're thinking,
man's right. Commodore, Yeah, Heading you take up a position
on that point of land below your.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Podcasts, Baby, bring the guns to bed very soon. Try
if you don't break off more actions at the moment,
If you please, common dot corn Blower, we should be peeled.
If your masterfire should continue as long as possible. It
is doing much deeper, very well, generally, Shelby continued, Summers, keep.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
An eye on that horsetorn battery.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The catch is being fired upon Nelson. I can see that,
and Kimball dropping all around this. Last voler raised a
thoundreds of water very close close enough. Summer's signals to
the Harvey discontinue the action.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Hi is sa, she's got it fast.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
They've slipped the anchor and after the oars.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They get the sails up mound. Don't get your sails. Happened?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh come boy, hoy, there go the sails, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
She moves very still.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
She remains with the rain still.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yes, the wind would drop now. I think she has been.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Keeping the card to tend. There's so much smoke. Yes,
she's moving NASA barges at all.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes, it's not fast enough. Summers faster, maned faster.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
She's reaching for deeper water and nuser, but she's still
in range.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The French Is are not, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
They're not tied together any longer. A tender man has
cut the barges loose.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Summers. Once out of should water, the Harvey cannot move faster.
That is a silence, gentleman French. Better is stop firing?
She she's out of range.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, very close call, Commodore, very close, but.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Worth you's not?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Where is your work?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Commodore home?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Bloor hain'ts to you.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I should estimate the progress of the siege has been
delayed by I should estimate her by four.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Days, four days.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I should estimate her four days. Four days is excellent
if by such little delays that her final victory will
be one.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Four days, all that labor and effort and blood and sweat,
and then return them a mere formal days. I felt
inexpressibly tired and worn out. The main army of the
tyrant Bonaparte was marching into Russell, and all we could
accomplish this outposts four days delay, Sir.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Mister Wilson is second in command above the hobby. With
your permission, I shall signal him.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Signal listen, yes, sir, nd uh mine was killed.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yes, sir, one of the last shots from the shore.
I see.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Bose I I had had delayed signaling to discontinue the action.
I had delayed til the last momentary. He was a
fine officer, Yes, sir, for ly I bou she, he
wrote his wife. Uh. If his child is a boy,
he says, to name.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Him after me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And if only I, only I had not delayed a
fine officer, Sir was mister Mount.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes, Sir, shall I signal for mister Wilson. M what's
the uh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, Captain Goesh, signal me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The west Nickers ratio Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based
on the novels by C. S. Forester. Music composed and
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conducted by Sidney Tortz, produced by Harry Allen Cowers, a
Hold all hands picked the quarters, all Africa stand by
this time of beer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One broadside, in't worry to please Captain Bush point us.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Some pocket this stops, yes already?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Is that Michael Redgrave, a CS Forester's indomino Man of
the Sea, Ratio Hornblower. I say that the imitation is
(01:50):
the sincerest form of flattery. Well, Lieutenant Mount, who commanded
the bomb catch hearty attached to my Baltic squadron, Well,
he'd grown to imitate me, and in every gesture and speech,
and well, but I had other things on my mind.
Bonaparte's forces were laying siege to the Russian defenders outside
(02:13):
the city of Rigan. Imitation. Well, the art of war
seems to be that of imitation. Well, I definitely want so.
In the belief upon Kaisowitz, a Prussian colonel who had
deserted Bonaparte in order to oppose him, and who was
showing me the Russian earthworks and the lions.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You we observed from a dahan blower from dis vantage
point up here on the gallery of the church tower,
we can see spread out before us the whole operation.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maiden is attempting to move up his heavy guns and
classic method sir.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now from the line after a river diagonality up to
the pine boots. He has dug a tread. It is
protected with best works. Huge baskets later feed with earth
the classic method.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I see them from the pine woods. Another diagonal trench.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, and so on, sick sack. Each get close at
our lines, and Tilly has sided breasted works behind which
to imploy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's happy up to yes, yes, but how long before
they're in range? She've judged two weeks? Two weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It has been done this way since the days off season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, nobody will deny that Bonaparte wants to be another Caesar.
But you know, guns heavy enough to battle down those breastworks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's most difficult.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I've got mortars aboard my bomb catches. If we could,
we could level him no time, And why not do so? Commodore,
I said, if we could, But that river isn't deep enough,
sandbar shallows, quicksands. No, No, we'd run a ground before
we got within range. I see, So we must carry
on the five hours Saints Betty telephone because of it.
(03:55):
There are some things that even the British Navy cannot do.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I stood, nothing was impossible to the British lady. I apologize, commodore,
I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I withheld the words that came rushing to my lips. Goodwill,
even between allies, is sometimes a frail matter. Earlier we'd
been warm friends, But now that the French approaches were
moving towards Riga, I was asking why the Russian guns
couldn't stop the enemy, and they were asking why my
ship's guns couldn't do the same. So I hurried back
to Riga. There on the waterfront, I ran across left
(04:40):
Tenant Mound. It's dusty hereabout. I photoed as dry as
a camel. Almost mind if you completed your business. I
have a moment before going back aboard the non citizens.
There's an inn over there. Perhaps you would join me
in a glass of this odd beverage that they call
pod gun. You missing, good man, I said, oh, yes, sir, yes,
(05:07):
I do. Sometimes reason I'm not. Sometimes in the morning,
just before I opened my eyes, I think of home.
There's honeysuckle outside my place in Hampshire. It comes in
the window, sweet and strong as as perfume. You're married, man, yes, sir, wrong,
little more than a yes. Children, we're expecting wansa any day.
(05:32):
Now we're both hoping for a son. So I sent
a letter to my wife. The cam carried it on
her boy's back might be there by now. I wrote
her that if it's a boy, yeah, I told her
to name him Horatio. Oh I did. If you've no objection,
no reason that could sult me, mister mand, it's a
(05:53):
common enough heah, listen the gunfire. M Well, mind, it
seems we're not back in England among the holleysucond going
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back on board the none such. I was both touched
and irritated by man's hero worship. What glorified me in
his eyes? I certainly couldn't imagine, not when my ship
stood idle in the midst of battle line of trenches.
Here at the bat of the ear, the main flank
and stores are behind the dyke. Here cool water is
close enough to spit on them. Oh, come look at
(06:42):
the chart show water bush too shallow for us. I
mentioned that to Plaza Wiz. He was not impressed. Land soldiers. Well,
at least you understood it, and mind understood.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well that's a good young officer, Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He's a fine future too, you know, I find out
quite an affection young mind lives in Hampshire, he says,
has a home there, wife and a child on the way.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
How's he now?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I never even knew he was married, nor did I
never thought to inquire, not before today. I had a
drink with him today, good officer. I'd only just come
in from the breastworks, dusty road from there to read,
and my float was as dry as a as a camel.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What's that, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
As a camel.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
By heaven bush?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Why didn't I think of that before? What's a wool gathering?
Sentimental talk about home and all that nonsense? Push? A
man should keep his mind on his business, and our
business is war. Where's a messenger that you don't I
come coments to the officer of the watch.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Will he please make signal to the bump catch Harvey
for mister Mann to meet.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Me on sore at once. It's coming to.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Canvanisvis and general less?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Now fIF denmand and I may have your ear also
we play your comrad However, I believe it is a
fool's there and them which you're right here in such haste?
Why you see you will use camels. We have no camels.
This is not a Sahara. The Comodore is an expert
on ships. Has cameras are told ships of the desert,
(08:19):
He's an expert on them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It shall we get down to business? Well, I hope not.
The allies in the center, clemens, while we talk the
Frenchman move ever closer and closer. Well in this instance, gentlemen,
a camel is enabled term. Mister Mander, will you introduce
these gentlemen to the meaning of the word camel. Yes,
a camel is a method of reducing the draft of
(08:42):
a ship of a kind of cabins. As the commodore
has already pointed out, the water in the river is
very shallow, too shallow for our bomb ketches to come
within range of the n Yes. Yes, I've been holding
over and over. So if two loaded vessels are lashed tightly,
one on each side of the bomb catch, and are
then emptied of their loads, it will lighten all three
(09:03):
and raise.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Them farther out of the water.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You can, out of the water.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I do not yet comprehend.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Generally, you have some barges in riga, Yes, barges drawing
the more than a couple of feet of water. When empty,
we will load them with sand them empty out the sand.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The bomb catch could be lifted clean out of the water.
See and did we get close enough to bring the
guns to bear exactly?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
General, we may come and dear two barges, big ones
preference on.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Good?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh man, there's only one problem, Yes, sir, are you
going to steer them all drawing less than two.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Feet of water?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That will be almost unmanageable. That's truser. They will drift
at the mercy of the winter, unless mister man by
George a Danube brodder. What General, let's not that's a
very large auxiliary rudder set well behind the ships. If
it's big enough, it will compensate for the lack of
bottom to the keels. If you say so, Man, you
would also better pierce the sides of the barges and
(09:59):
use oars as well. Yes, sir, good, well, we'll proceed
at once. Along you estimate, Man, i'd say by tomorrow noons.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Tomorrow noons you disagree.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
If i'm guys, you come witho hornblower. I did not
follow you and your cameras.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I didn't understand about them.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But these past few minutes I have been observing the
activities of the enemy. Please take these tennis comprehency for
your path.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We are beginning to move up the big guns by
tomorrow after noon it where it may be to day.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So the art of war was not entirely after all,
just as we had refused to accept the inevitable, exactly
so had the French Marshal Meydoor tried to hasten his
timetable welcome. The camels progressed with orderly, fantic speed. The
barges were brought out from Riga. The harvey was left
between them. Torches reddened the darkness as the men labored
(10:54):
to quicken the task to be done, and by dawn
Lieutenant Man was able to start toward the river. Like
three giant water bugs fastened together, the bodies in the
bumb kitch began to move.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Horse po Ti pull hod up.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
This wors good by r Bar.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
We don't have steering, joy of the man.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I knows that they're not deeping up in the water
to get any bite against the current or the wind.
The Daniel rudder doesn't compensate. Even though rudder, we need
a stronger pull and we haven't got it. You better
drop banks, the man. But the French guns are moving
up It'll do us no good to go on like this.
I've draft, maybe a shallow but we'll We'll only pile
up in the show water, pile up and sit there
on the should watching the French batteries pound our allies.
(11:48):
There must be some solution of let's hope we find it.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, we must find it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Rob Banks, the man my eyes up what hand had
(12:14):
French guns were moving up into position to attack the
Russian descenters outside Riga, and despite our bright promises, we
seemed unable to give aid to Willies. We'd raised the
Harvey by lashing her between two emptied barges, but the
windom can't approving too much for us to handle. It
was an hour after DRM and on the deck of
the Hobby the young face of Lieutenant Mind was gray
(12:37):
with fatigue and helplessness. We've got much time less, so
have we much. Only the wind of change, if it
would back around behind us instead of being off the started. Besides,
the French guns will be in position by noon. Yes,
if the wind shifted, we'd be in position too, And
shallow water right on Bony's flank thirteen inch shells loaded
(12:59):
with the explosive.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Five to mortar.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That must be some replacement for a brother.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I trust there is.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Heading for the church tower. I took with me a
warm feeling the young man, and also took a Signalman Summers,
to rig a pole so that we could let the
bomb catch know the effect of its mortar fire. Glonel
van Klasivitz watched these operations with me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Hellijo signals, ready, boys, Dave.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Summers, stand by pisa urvan Katz. The French siege guns
are in position.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Come John below any moment that she opened fire?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Were the boat of yours moving up river?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Now? Colonel, Oh, yes, it moves the spino It's an
awkward craft that moves as fast as it can.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
The French teach cans will be set up behind him.
Press is he the are piercing holding a breath word
to allow the Mussles to protest at that I used
it against pressed word. The Harvey carries a mortar.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh yes right, ject yes very high. Once in position,
the shelves will drop down as it from the sky.
I can see the hopes General will be here at
any moment to observe personally.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
As Governor General of Rita. For silent shunder.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
He will be very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Should your plants say.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I also shall be very disappointed.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Summers, there's a ready flag going up on Harvey.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, acknowledge.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Stand by to observe, Moti, Commodore Flower, your kits is
ready at last?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
What? Oh yeah, yes, general is not at last.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I shall stand by your side. Please to describe to me,
I will serve. The mortar is being loaded.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's med by punting the entire ship like an arrow
at the target. A Summers make signal to Harvey on target,
fire at will.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
On target park will.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
If one has been fired without delay as fast as.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Possible from now, I'm.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's what what the brest works says. Say big level
a seeds con destroyed. Look the muzzle is spit quite open.
Not a gun destroyed, Sir, there's a French horse thorne
battery of the moon.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You say that, Summers, coming up from the rasser, you're thinking,
man's right. Commodore, Yeah, Heading you take up a position
on that point of land below your.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Podcasts, Baby, bring the guns to bed very soon. Try
if you don't break off more actions at the moment,
If you please, common dot corn Blower, we should be peeled.
If your masterfire should continue as long as possible. It
is doing much deeper, very well, generally, Shelby continued, Summers, keep.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
An eye on that horsetorn battery.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
The catch is being fired upon Nelson. I can see that,
and Kimball dropping all around this. Last voler raised a
thoundreds of water very close close enough. Summer's signals to
the Harvey discontinue the action.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Hi is sa, she's got it fast.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
They've slipped the anchor and after the oars.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They get the sails up mound. Don't get your sails. Happened?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Oh come boy, hoy, there go the sails, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
She moves very still.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
She remains with the rain still.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yes, the wind would drop now. I think she has been.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Keeping the card to tend. There's so much smoke. Yes,
she's moving NASA barges at all.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes, it's not fast enough. Summers faster, maned faster.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
She's reaching for deeper water and nuser, but she's still
in range.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The French Is are not, sir.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
They're not tied together any longer. A tender man has
cut the barges loose.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Summers. Once out of should water, the Harvey cannot move faster.
That is a silence, gentleman French. Better is stop firing?
She she's out of range.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, very close call, Commodore, very close, but.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Worth you's not?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Where is your work?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Commodore home?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Bloor hain'ts to you.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I should estimate the progress of the siege has been
delayed by I should estimate her by four.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Days, four days.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I should estimate her four days. Four days is excellent
if by such little delays that her final victory will
be one.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Four days, all that labor and effort and blood and sweat,
and then return them a mere formal days. I felt
inexpressibly tired and worn out. The main army of the
tyrant Bonaparte was marching into Russell, and all we could
accomplish this outposts four days delay, Sir.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Mister Wilson is second in command above the hobby. With
your permission, I shall signal him.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Signal listen, yes, sir, nd uh mine was killed.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yes, sir, one of the last shots from the shore.
I see.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Bose I I had had delayed signaling to discontinue the action.
I had delayed til the last momentary. He was a
fine officer, Yes, sir, for ly I bou she, he
wrote his wife. Uh. If his child is a boy,
he says, to name.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Him after me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And if only I, only I had not delayed a
fine officer, Sir was mister Mount.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes, Sir, shall I signal for mister Wilson. M what's
the uh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yes, Captain Goesh, signal me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The west Nickers ratio Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based
on the novels by C. S. Forester. Music composed and
(19:23):
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