July 4, 2025 • 21 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 (00:00):
H hold all hands back to quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm a good stand by this carbon battery one broadside.
Didn't worry to please Captain Bush.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pints on target.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This not ready eyes are already fire?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Is that? Michael Redgrave se as Forester's indomino Man of
the Sea, Horatio Hornblowers. Since those days when I was
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barely passed twenty year, I've set eyes many times on
the North African city of Ran, But that morning was
the first time. And the eyes of youth are so
struck by beauty that I could not help but stop
and gape. Our squadron had arrived in the Gulf of
Oram the evening before. Now. As I climbed the quarter
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deck to report to Captain Plum, the scene spread before me.
The water was the bluest I'd ever seen. The sky also,
and where water and sky met lay the heathen city
of Oran, its minarets and towers lovely beyond description. Oh,
mister Hogglar, eager to get a shawl, sir. The squadron's
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in need of supplies. Mister Taptick, here, as you know,
is its civilian member of the Diplomatic Corps side duty
with the Fleet Desert. He's arranged with the Bay of
Iran to touch his cattle a grave. You will be
in charge of the long boat that takes him ashore.
Mister hogarris a tatlic. You'll make every effort you understand,
I do very well, Captain. We're blocking all of Europe,
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nothing but enemies on the entire continent. Unless we manage
supplies here, we'll be forced to lift the blockade and
save Claire back to England. And has always brought us
what goods Chip brought her. Now that Spain's joint flants
against us gibrought her to his heart. Put for supplies,
we must have these. I'll do my best, captain, but
as you know, the Muslims are very tricky fellows you
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seven thousand gold guineas, don't pay over toppens of it
until the cattle and grain are already loaded in the lighters.
By then you can, mister Horndar, sir, has your attention
been wandering?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Whyever?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Sorry, sir, this is the sight of our answer. Those
white buildings over there, it looks work so clean, clean ha.
Wait till you lay alongside the duck, mister hornblower, clean.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
A bi botors well d.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And a bother stand by the secure under that firing,
mister Tapling. That man over there standing on the darky,
is he waiting for us to think big black man
in the blue room. Yes, yes, that's him, Dura, representative
of his master, the ruler of Iran. He's very very picturesque,
picturesque Hormbler. Yes, everything but this place it looks. What's wrong,
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Wombler who stopped in mid flight?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
O smell?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh the breeze shifted suddenly. I got a whiff, mister Tapling.
It smells smells. I'm clean, like a like a pest hole.
Mister Dura, allow me to present mister Hombler of his
Britannic Majesty's Navy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yes, yes, you have brought with you the gold in the.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Boat right below us. Good good, I will take the
gold and bring you the supply. No, thank you, the first,
the supplies, then the girl. He's nonsense. You do not
trust the bay of ram. I appeal to mister Hornaday
horn Blow. I'm sorry, mister, but I must agree with
mister Tappling.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Therese lighters beside the doctor. There for supplies. Yes, for
the cattle and the grain.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A four hundred fat cattle, dura and fifteen hundred venigas
of barley grain. It is already. This is not all
yet here, mister Dura. Once it's here on board the
lighters for transport to our supply ship, the cattle line.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And well, I agree with mister tappling.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh oh, something troubles you at Duran to forgive me
a fendy. I am not well at he's heat. Or
perhaps it's worry about what the bay will do to
you if we take the gold and.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Depart, or never, never, Please to wait. I will return
with the supplies long before nightfall. Please wait, Look at
that horn blow?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, I saw it, big one. All rats are big
in ran. But did you notice how it's tumbled entering
that drain pipes, as if it were drunk. I ordered
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the men to spread an awning against the rays of
the sun, and we sat under it, all of us,
dappling our crew from the long bolt and eye out
beyond the hobby of the indefatigable stood down the filled
sail with the caroline design her. The ocean looked cool
and pleasant, but we drew small comfort from it. Natives
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in long robes came and went, and one of them
seemed almost as badly off as.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The rat they tappling.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, is it Isn't that Durah coming back? Let me see,
yes it is, but a string of loaded donk. Isn't
a herd of cattle and men carrying grain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sects and scrawny cattle. No, we're lucky to get even these,
all right, mister Durra. Load them on the lighters and
we'll hand over the gold lively.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Now the way they drive those men, Look, there's three
of them fainted already to me, so long as they
finish the loading, hornblower.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If they just lie there and they all.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Act as if they were drunkets, you know, it's pretty curious.
It's the sun Ah, here's Jordah now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Capital, mister Juror. Everything's just about on board hornbler. If
you have that gold handed up thing. Hey, wait a minute,
what mister, what is it? What's the I am most illul.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He sway on the stiff close ways to the white.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I saw hard. I feel burning out. Oh the sun
through no my head, my oh.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hell, your hunter.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Keep those natives back, hi, mister tapling.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Jurah certainly wasn't drunk. No, no, neither were the others,
nor that first maslum who keeled over.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Nor was it the sun by heavens?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And that rat hornblower, that rat that had difficulty in
finding the print.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Fight, Yes, you think it's it's the plague.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The black death.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I saw it in Smyrna in ninety four. Let know hell,
let them go and but there's no stumming. And now
there's no stumping any of them. Look there's three more
respecials of the next.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Dock that cast him offer rowing out the sea. The
whole town is in a panic. Look at the running
every way. There's no sense of leaving the gold sitting
here on dark side. Matthews Hunter passed back on board
the longboat. But sir, I confound you.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
That is an order.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Aye. I now, mister Taplin, what do we do now?
Do or blow?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
We stay here and rot? Stay here old?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So is it a holder?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What on earth is all this fellowing going on under
my cannon window?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Come about, sir?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We can't come a horse.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's close enough, mister horgore way enough, Mamie, I I
t e high quite close enough. Now you said something
about it, request mister Horg. Now, sir, the cattle and
grain are already in the light of at dark side.
They can be transferred to the caroline by who.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm not risk any more men, and no, sir, by
us you guess, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There are plenty office counting mister Tapling and myself, and
we can sell the caroline ourselves. Shad it you mean
removed the clue that's a board now, but you may not. Instead,
it's the only way to save the supply, sir, Well,
it might be a dead You'll have to be on
your own, because I understand that, sir, the caroline will
keep completely clear of the scabron completely.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Have I opened?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Listened, sir? A patient curtain.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Mister Hodder, you're placed in command of the cartli. I'll
have her crew taken out before you return with the lighters.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Carry on, I have her. Yeah, that's happening.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can't help wondering what it's pounds to sixpence before
already picked up the plague.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We're as good as dead already, horn blow.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I shall have a forget how hard we worked that
afternoon and all through the night, taking over an empty
ship and loading into it all that vast amount of
cattle and grain. Mor shall I ever forget my desolation.
The next morning then the squab them left us behind.
What's that signal? Gun from the indefatigable peppling oh, saying
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farewell eh, Yes, two guns. I'm getting a salute as
an acting lieutenant. I hope I can prove worthy of it. Now,
not until late that afternoon, will be prepared to set
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sail and leave the Gulf of Ran. And before we did,
one of the Moorish craft called zeebeks came rowing out
from the harbor. Strange gibberish was called at us.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Are they saying something? Can you make it out?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Or something about their money?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I think money?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All the seven thousand guineas well. At least they're not
frightening the number of the plates you forget there are it?
They're frightened enough to stay well clear. And the money
is theirs. There's no doubt that we get it to them,
And as we prays in well, tell them, tell them
we'll seal it up in a couple of rum punctions
and float it down to them. And just as anxious
to stay clear of them as they are of us,
Matthews fare see to it at once. And Matthews have
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the cruise. Stand by the hoist sail. We have belonged
three weeks ahead of his. There was a little sleep
aboard the caroline. We've got twenty men to handle her.
We had our hands full. Never one other problems as well, sir.
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This now is our smells worse than all randoes.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
We'll have to do something about then.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Cattle say they will have to do double duty matters.
I want every man to stand the second watch, and
it will be employed in mucking out makin now, cleaning
the cattle stores matters. Haven't you ever been a farmer
cleaning out the stalls?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Sure? Bringing your pardon? What is it?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Answer? Don't tell me the men are complaining of their rations.
We're giving every one of you fresh meat.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We slaughtered a bullock a day. Oh no, sir, it
ain't dead.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That fresh meat is welcome by there ain't hardly one
of us ever tasted the steak before. But no, sir,
it's this breed. She's leaking very bad, sir, She's leaking
very bad. We're man the pumps pumps, night and day. Sir,
What is it?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Our matives? No sign of play?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Because a no, sir, praise be for that well fifteen
days out of Aram.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Already no sign of play.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yes, we may escape it entirely. There's something else we
can't escape, Sir.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We've run out of water, I said.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Clean out, but there was plenty. Captain Palu had the
catline well stocked before the squadron lift us. He forgot
about them cattle sick. He drinks water too, gallons of it.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
The quarantine period is three weeks, Matthews.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We've got to hang on out here for another six days.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Summer can't be done shair, not without fresh water, Sir.
They started to sail around the far point. What they think?
It's a Spanish coastal.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Gold lugger post cardy Matthews, Sir, how many hands you
think that? Like a caddies?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
How many serves the world?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I should judge twenty five? Yes, I will have the
outside thirty and we have twenty, sir, You ain't thinking
I am. I am. Listen, she carries four eight pounders.
So long as she doesn't stand off and use them,
we may.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Have a chance.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hump Isia want you to choose two men and show
yourselves up here at the helm with me. I want
everybody else to stay out of sight. Behind the railing
hand our pistols and cutlasses to warhands. Matthews, iter, mister
Tapling may also so see that he's armed. I want
every man ready to jump. And if a man shows
himself before I give the order, you will shoot him, Matthews,
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with their own hand. Ay, we're showing no colors. Our
plans legal under the laws of war. And wait till
the lugger comes alongside the men boarder.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Suppose they stand off, Sir.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Let's hope they don't, Matthews. Their job is to apprehend smugglers.
Let them take us for us, right does and we
have a chance, a good chance. I remember even now
how excited I was, how my knees trembled into what
pains I went to conceal it, And I remember being
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grateful for those cattle, all that voyage. They grated on
my nerves with their mournful bellowing, but now I welcomed it.
Who would expect a ship laden with cattle to be
prepared to fight? There's a warning shot, Sir, yes al Baba,
and then to heave to hunter you men name tops
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or braces, O.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Helm hardily, hunter, hardly. It is er no not a sun.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You should concern. They don't suspice nothing, sir. They're laughing
about the capital white specter. Wait of a so on
boarders about to wireless, sir, Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Nothing, nay birthday and the bye gone alongside.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm my head.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Come right to the outside.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He'll stay up the helmet the boer. They're close, yes,
h big partner services.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Are you going to board her?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Why or sit on me?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You forgot to own yourself, sir. You've forgot a pistol
or even a cutlass.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It was a wrong side.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I had no time to remedy my lack of weapons.
I'm certain that my voice cracked when I gave the
command for my crew to follow me. I ran across
the deck and with a gope, flung myself down upon
the spaniard's deck. The man came pouring on you, Joel.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Stuck him down.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Hogtive enough.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I'm half his hold hold back, hold, turn on those practices.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Drop my arms to the deck.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Anyone hurts, that is, you'll take her over a surprise,
strike her colors and run up her own hie Eyesah, John,
pass the head, Why heaven, hornblower, you did it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I've never enjoyed anything so much in all my life
taking a prize, and we were fortunate. Mister Taplin, I've
never home directing for GOODSPI there hasn't been a sign
of the plague since we set out. Quarantine period will
soon be over. Can't we head for Gibraltar with safety? Yes,
I'm certain of it, mister Tadlick. And so it was
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that six days later, on the twenty second day of
our quarantine, we entered Gibraltar Bay with a captured Spanish
lugger under our lee. I was a proud young fellow,
acting Lieutenant Hornblower, safely in with supplies for the fleet
and the prize to boot. But if I expected praise,
I got little of it. I reported to Captain Balloon.
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He nodded and dismissed me, and the only comment I
received came from the Chief Commissary of the squadron, when
I presented to him my accounting of the supplies. Mister Hornbler,
you mean to tell me that you allowed your crew
to eat fresh beef a bullocker dave for your men.
That was want an extravagance with the Hobbbler. I'm surprised at.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You, Yes, Sir
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Horatio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by CS Farnaster Music composer Wasn't conducted by Sidney Torch,
produced by Harry Alan Cars
H hold all hands back to quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm a good stand by this carbon battery one broadside.
Didn't worry to please Captain Bush.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pints on target.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This not ready eyes are already fire?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Is that? Michael Redgrave se as Forester's indomino Man of
the Sea, Horatio Hornblowers. Since those days when I was
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barely passed twenty year, I've set eyes many times on
the North African city of Ran, But that morning was
the first time. And the eyes of youth are so
struck by beauty that I could not help but stop
and gape. Our squadron had arrived in the Gulf of
Oram the evening before. Now. As I climbed the quarter
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deck to report to Captain Plum, the scene spread before me.
The water was the bluest I'd ever seen. The sky also,
and where water and sky met lay the heathen city
of Oran, its minarets and towers lovely beyond description. Oh,
mister Hogglar, eager to get a shawl, sir. The squadron's
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in need of supplies. Mister Taptick, here, as you know,
is its civilian member of the Diplomatic Corps side duty
with the Fleet Desert. He's arranged with the Bay of
Iran to touch his cattle a grave. You will be
in charge of the long boat that takes him ashore.
Mister hogarris a tatlic. You'll make every effort you understand,
I do very well, Captain. We're blocking all of Europe,
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nothing but enemies on the entire continent. Unless we manage
supplies here, we'll be forced to lift the blockade and
save Claire back to England. And has always brought us
what goods Chip brought her. Now that Spain's joint flants
against us gibrought her to his heart. Put for supplies,
we must have these. I'll do my best, captain, but
as you know, the Muslims are very tricky fellows you
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seven thousand gold guineas, don't pay over toppens of it
until the cattle and grain are already loaded in the lighters.
By then you can, mister Horndar, sir, has your attention
been wandering?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Whyever?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Sorry, sir, this is the sight of our answer. Those
white buildings over there, it looks work so clean, clean ha.
Wait till you lay alongside the duck, mister hornblower, clean.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
A bi botors well d.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And a bother stand by the secure under that firing,
mister Tapling. That man over there standing on the darky,
is he waiting for us to think big black man
in the blue room. Yes, yes, that's him, Dura, representative
of his master, the ruler of Iran. He's very very picturesque,
picturesque Hormbler. Yes, everything but this place it looks. What's wrong,
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Wombler who stopped in mid flight?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
O smell?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh the breeze shifted suddenly. I got a whiff, mister Tapling.
It smells smells. I'm clean, like a like a pest hole.
Mister Dura, allow me to present mister Hombler of his
Britannic Majesty's Navy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yes, yes, you have brought with you the gold in the.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Boat right below us. Good good, I will take the
gold and bring you the supply. No, thank you, the first,
the supplies, then the girl. He's nonsense. You do not
trust the bay of ram. I appeal to mister Hornaday
horn Blow. I'm sorry, mister, but I must agree with
mister Tappling.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Therese lighters beside the doctor. There for supplies. Yes, for
the cattle and the grain.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A four hundred fat cattle, dura and fifteen hundred venigas
of barley grain. It is already. This is not all
yet here, mister Dura. Once it's here on board the
lighters for transport to our supply ship, the cattle line.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And well, I agree with mister tappling.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh oh, something troubles you at Duran to forgive me
a fendy. I am not well at he's heat. Or
perhaps it's worry about what the bay will do to
you if we take the gold and.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Depart, or never, never, Please to wait. I will return
with the supplies long before nightfall. Please wait, Look at
that horn blow?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, I saw it, big one. All rats are big
in ran. But did you notice how it's tumbled entering
that drain pipes, as if it were drunk. I ordered
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the men to spread an awning against the rays of
the sun, and we sat under it, all of us,
dappling our crew from the long bolt and eye out
beyond the hobby of the indefatigable stood down the filled
sail with the caroline design her. The ocean looked cool
and pleasant, but we drew small comfort from it. Natives
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in long robes came and went, and one of them
seemed almost as badly off as.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The rat they tappling.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yes, is it Isn't that Durah coming back? Let me see,
yes it is, but a string of loaded donk. Isn't
a herd of cattle and men carrying grain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Sects and scrawny cattle. No, we're lucky to get even these,
all right, mister Durra. Load them on the lighters and
we'll hand over the gold lively.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Now the way they drive those men, Look, there's three
of them fainted already to me, so long as they
finish the loading, hornblower.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If they just lie there and they all.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Act as if they were drunkets, you know, it's pretty curious.
It's the sun Ah, here's Jordah now.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Capital, mister Juror. Everything's just about on board hornbler. If
you have that gold handed up thing. Hey, wait a minute,
what mister, what is it? What's the I am most illul.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He sway on the stiff close ways to the white.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I saw hard. I feel burning out. Oh the sun
through no my head, my oh.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hell, your hunter.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Keep those natives back, hi, mister tapling.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Jurah certainly wasn't drunk. No, no, neither were the others,
nor that first maslum who keeled over.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Nor was it the sun by heavens?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And that rat hornblower, that rat that had difficulty in
finding the print.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Fight, Yes, you think it's it's the plague.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The black death.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I saw it in Smyrna in ninety four. Let know hell,
let them go and but there's no stumming. And now
there's no stumping any of them. Look there's three more
respecials of the next.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Dock that cast him offer rowing out the sea. The
whole town is in a panic. Look at the running
every way. There's no sense of leaving the gold sitting
here on dark side. Matthews Hunter passed back on board
the longboat. But sir, I confound you.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
That is an order.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Aye. I now, mister Taplin, what do we do now?
Do or blow?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
We stay here and rot? Stay here old?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So is it a holder?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What on earth is all this fellowing going on under
my cannon window?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Come about, sir?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We can't come a horse.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's close enough, mister horgore way enough, Mamie, I I
t e high quite close enough. Now you said something
about it, request mister Horg. Now, sir, the cattle and
grain are already in the light of at dark side.
They can be transferred to the caroline by who.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'm not risk any more men, and no, sir, by
us you guess, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
There are plenty office counting mister Tapling and myself, and
we can sell the caroline ourselves. Shad it you mean
removed the clue that's a board now, but you may not. Instead,
it's the only way to save the supply, sir, Well,
it might be a dead You'll have to be on
your own, because I understand that, sir, the caroline will
keep completely clear of the scabron completely.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Have I opened?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Listened, sir? A patient curtain.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Mister Hodder, you're placed in command of the cartli. I'll
have her crew taken out before you return with the lighters.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Carry on, I have her. Yeah, that's happening.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can't help wondering what it's pounds to sixpence before
already picked up the plague.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We're as good as dead already, horn blow.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I shall have a forget how hard we worked that
afternoon and all through the night, taking over an empty
ship and loading into it all that vast amount of
cattle and grain. Mor shall I ever forget my desolation.
The next morning then the squab them left us behind.
What's that signal? Gun from the indefatigable peppling oh, saying
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farewell eh, Yes, two guns. I'm getting a salute as
an acting lieutenant. I hope I can prove worthy of it. Now,
not until late that afternoon, will be prepared to set
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sail and leave the Gulf of Ran. And before we did,
one of the Moorish craft called zeebeks came rowing out
from the harbor. Strange gibberish was called at us.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Are they saying something? Can you make it out?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Or something about their money?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I think money?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All the seven thousand guineas well. At least they're not
frightening the number of the plates you forget there are it?
They're frightened enough to stay well clear. And the money
is theirs. There's no doubt that we get it to them,
And as we prays in well, tell them, tell them
we'll seal it up in a couple of rum punctions
and float it down to them. And just as anxious
to stay clear of them as they are of us,
Matthews fare see to it at once. And Matthews have
(12:21):
the cruise. Stand by the hoist sail. We have belonged
three weeks ahead of his. There was a little sleep
aboard the caroline. We've got twenty men to handle her.
We had our hands full. Never one other problems as well, sir.
(12:43):
This now is our smells worse than all randoes.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
We'll have to do something about then.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Cattle say they will have to do double duty matters.
I want every man to stand the second watch, and
it will be employed in mucking out makin now, cleaning
the cattle stores matters. Haven't you ever been a farmer
cleaning out the stalls?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Sure? Bringing your pardon? What is it?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Answer? Don't tell me the men are complaining of their rations.
We're giving every one of you fresh meat.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We slaughtered a bullock a day. Oh no, sir, it
ain't dead.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That fresh meat is welcome by there ain't hardly one
of us ever tasted the steak before. But no, sir,
it's this breed. She's leaking very bad, sir, She's leaking
very bad. We're man the pumps pumps, night and day. Sir,
What is it?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Our matives? No sign of play?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Because a no, sir, praise be for that well fifteen
days out of Aram.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Already no sign of play.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yes, we may escape it entirely. There's something else we
can't escape, Sir.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We've run out of water, I said.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Clean out, but there was plenty. Captain Palu had the
catline well stocked before the squadron lift us. He forgot
about them cattle sick. He drinks water too, gallons of it.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
The quarantine period is three weeks, Matthews.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We've got to hang on out here for another six days.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Summer can't be done shair, not without fresh water, Sir.
They started to sail around the far point. What they think?
It's a Spanish coastal.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Gold lugger post cardy Matthews, Sir, how many hands you
think that? Like a caddies?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
How many serves the world?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I should judge twenty five? Yes, I will have the
outside thirty and we have twenty, sir, You ain't thinking
I am. I am. Listen, she carries four eight pounders.
So long as she doesn't stand off and use them,
we may.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Have a chance.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hump Isia want you to choose two men and show
yourselves up here at the helm with me. I want
everybody else to stay out of sight. Behind the railing
hand our pistols and cutlasses to warhands. Matthews, iter, mister
Tapling may also so see that he's armed. I want
every man ready to jump. And if a man shows
himself before I give the order, you will shoot him, Matthews,
(14:59):
with their own hand. Ay, we're showing no colors. Our
plans legal under the laws of war. And wait till
the lugger comes alongside the men boarder.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Suppose they stand off, Sir.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Let's hope they don't, Matthews. Their job is to apprehend smugglers.
Let them take us for us, right does and we
have a chance, a good chance. I remember even now
how excited I was, how my knees trembled into what
pains I went to conceal it, And I remember being
(15:30):
grateful for those cattle, all that voyage. They grated on
my nerves with their mournful bellowing, but now I welcomed it.
Who would expect a ship laden with cattle to be
prepared to fight? There's a warning shot, Sir, yes al Baba,
and then to heave to hunter you men name tops
(15:51):
or braces, O.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Helm hardily, hunter, hardly. It is er no not a sun.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
You should concern. They don't suspice nothing, sir. They're laughing
about the capital white specter. Wait of a so on
boarders about to wireless, sir, Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Nothing, nay birthday and the bye gone alongside.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm my head.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Come right to the outside.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He'll stay up the helmet the boer. They're close, yes,
h big partner services.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Are you going to board her?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Why or sit on me?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
You forgot to own yourself, sir. You've forgot a pistol
or even a cutlass.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It was a wrong side.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I had no time to remedy my lack of weapons.
I'm certain that my voice cracked when I gave the
command for my crew to follow me. I ran across
the deck and with a gope, flung myself down upon
the spaniard's deck. The man came pouring on you, Joel.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Stuck him down.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Hogtive enough.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I'm half his hold hold back, hold, turn on those practices.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Drop my arms to the deck.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Anyone hurts, that is, you'll take her over a surprise,
strike her colors and run up her own hie Eyesah, John,
pass the head, Why heaven, hornblower, you did it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I've never enjoyed anything so much in all my life
taking a prize, and we were fortunate. Mister Taplin, I've
never home directing for GOODSPI there hasn't been a sign
of the plague since we set out. Quarantine period will
soon be over. Can't we head for Gibraltar with safety? Yes,
I'm certain of it, mister Tadlick. And so it was
(18:52):
that six days later, on the twenty second day of
our quarantine, we entered Gibraltar Bay with a captured Spanish
lugger under our lee. I was a proud young fellow,
acting Lieutenant Hornblower, safely in with supplies for the fleet
and the prize to boot. But if I expected praise,
I got little of it. I reported to Captain Balloon.
(19:15):
He nodded and dismissed me, and the only comment I
received came from the Chief Commissary of the squadron, when
I presented to him my accounting of the supplies. Mister Hornbler,
you mean to tell me that you allowed your crew
to eat fresh beef a bullocker dave for your men.
That was want an extravagance with the Hobbbler. I'm surprised at.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You, Yes, Sir
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Horatio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by CS Farnaster Music composer Wasn't conducted by Sidney Torch,
produced by Harry Alan Cars
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