May 2, 2025 • 27 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 (00:13):
We present Nigel Anthony in the Hornblower Story, adapted from
four of the C. S. Forester novels by Val Gielgud
with Terence Skelton as William Bush. Part two from Lieutenant
Hornblower sealed Orders.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
While Renown plowed her course westwards across the Atlantic to
the West Indies station, there were two questions which, for
her crew, and more especially for her officers, seemed the
passing of each day more urgently to require answering. Following
upon the accident, to Captain sawyer Wood, first Lieutenant Buckland
digging upon himself formally to assume the responsibilit that is,
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of taking command of the ship. And what were the
contents of those sealed orders from the Admiralty among the
Captain's papers, the orders which to find the objectives of
renowned mission.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
When she reached her.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Station, swathed in a canvas strait jacket, the Captain lay
in his cabin. Unless reduced to insensibility by laudanum and bleeding,
he either screamed or sobbed.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
A crew that, under the tyranny.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Of her mind already deranged, had been fast disintegrating, could
now again be made seamen for the officers, and for me,
the junior Lieutenant Bucklan's decision was the vital thing. Only
with Lieutenant William Bush did I find it possible to
open the problem. How much longer before mister Buckland opens
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those orders, mister.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Bush, God knows. If it takes the ship down to
Antiquer only to find out afterwards that he has to
beat it back to Winwood, he'll get his che was
wrapped finely by my lord's. And if he reads secret orders,
he's liable to be reprimanded for presumption what you're reading,
mister Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Great, just out as you'd ever measured. I have never
been as fast out as this before.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And what's your results?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm not certain what's the difficulty. I can shoot the sun,
no trouble about that. It's the calculations that bother me.
All those damn corrections.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh well they're not so hard, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No check against mine plot the position with parallel rulers.
There's the point of interception. Now we can check against
dead reckoning. I see I we're still being set to salad.
We're not far enough east for the Gulf stream to
say as knowledge.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You said you'd never navigated these waters before.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's so, Denhall.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, I suppose you've been studying at any rate.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There we are.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's something. Don't know that much. What do you think
number one will do? Mister Hormler.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He must make up his mind now or never. We
lose ground to lure every day from now on.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'd read the orders, mister Bush. I'd rather be in
trouble for having done something. They're not doing anything. I
wonder whose orders made attaches on independent service.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's a chance in the thousand for Buckler.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I suppose it is you wish it was yours.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I must put these things away.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm exercising the lower deck guns cruise afterhands have had
their dinner and the first dog wakes out for that, Yes,
mister Hornblower, permission to have the deck wash pump.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Ricks men feeling these eh?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I don't know about them, but I am mister Robertson.
I have fifteen minutes sperenty of time. Oh very well,
thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Captain of the wastre get the wash deck pump, briggs
at one pole for the hose.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And jump to it. Give away.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
That's right, turn it on me.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Half per few sent a feat cooks.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Hornblower has some odd ball.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
He seems to be enjoying himself.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So rather him than me.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
That has pumping out, Captain of the Way, secure that plump.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Get the next bob.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Back with you in five minutes, mister Robarts, right out.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I hope what's.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Going on here, mister Roberts.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Mister Hornblower wanted a bath, mister Bucklund.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't know if.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It's good for discipline.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
We'll hope he doesn't get him self a fever. Checking
the sweat like that.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
No sign of that, sir, Well, it may clear his head,
perhaps he could clear mine.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Your sir, I need a clear head at this moment.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Send mister Hornblow to my cabin when he comes back,
mister Robarts, and ask the surgeon to join us.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This thing's got to be settled.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Aye, Aye, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Mister Bush, find mister Clive and let him know that
mister Buckland wants him in his cabin.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Will mister Clive?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
He's done it?
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Read the orders as far as I know, Yes, mister Robarts,
what do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
What was in them?
Speaker 9 (05:51):
They are secret orders, mister Robarts. Even if mister Buckland
had taken me into his confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I couldn't tell you, no need to be pompous about it.
What did the captain do?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What didn't he do?
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Mister Bush, poor devil. We might have been fiends from
the pit. We should have seen him card away when
we went into his cabin. But the thought we were
going to cut his throat instead of just finding the
key of his desk. That man is suffering the terrors
of hell.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
I suppose you would not be guilty of exaggeration, mister Clyde.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
I would not, sir, I repeat the terrors of hell
and all the sorrows of this world.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Hmmm, And did you find this precious key?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
We did?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Mister Buckland opened the desk?
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Well, mister Buckland found the orders usual linen envelope with
the admiralty seal, so.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He's now read them. And when Une the wiser, well,
God bless my soul. I don't imagine we can expect
to know what's in store for us. We've only been
at war for nearly ten years. We just obey orders.
Helmer LEI let go and haul grape shot in the
belly or Champagne in a captured flagship. Who cares we
draw our four shillings day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
We're all fine.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, I'll wager a week's pay on a change of
course when mister Butler's read those orders, mister Clive.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
No takers, Officer of the Watch.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Here's up.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We're alfhering course two points steer south west.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Course sour west, mister rabbit, sour west, it is, sir
by Paul, hands.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
To the bracers.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Another pull on that poor brace.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There your pardon, mister Baffert.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yes, mister Robert.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Can you tell us our mission now?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sir? No, it is still secret.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Very good, sir, but I can tell you where we're bound.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
San Domingo, Scotsman's Bay, San Domingo Hispaniola.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Haiti three names for the same island. I am obliged
to you, mister Bush. Hmm, haty, that's where the black
stir and belling against the Spaniards.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
That is so, I believe, mister Roberts.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
If you ask me, Captain Sawyer is not the only
one that's nervous.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
I didn't ask you, mister Clive.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I wonder is it of the blacks or is it
because Captain Sawyer's still alive.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
I would suggest that, as surgeon, you go below and
attend to him, mister Clive, that is your business?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Can I have some company up here? Mister Hornbler, she's rolling,
damnably rolling.
Speaker 12 (08:36):
She's wallowing. Oh lord, yours must be a cast iron stomach.
Mister Bush, the devil must be Liehle too like this.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Mister Butler seems to want time to study the lie
of the land.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's been studying it through that telescope and he's for
a good half hour.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Why can't even take up his mind?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There's nothing to see at this range but the mountains
of San Domingo.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How much more does he want to see?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We know there's a fort up there flying the Spanish colors,
and everyone on shore must know by now that the
British ship of the Lion is prowling about the down
said have to be clever to guess we're not here
on a yachting trip. All we're doing is giving him
the time they need to prepare a reception for us.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
What else could Buckland do?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He could have come in with the sea breeze, under
cover of darkness, with a landing party, readily put the
mashore at dawn storm the place before they.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Knew there was any danger.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh damn, this is.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Browling, mister Roberts, sir, pay.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Her on the port tack horned by eye, sir, port tack.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Holmes, many eye, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
There's something.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I could wish we were going into action, running away
to think about.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It, anxious to meet fire, mister Horner.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Nothing like that, mister Butcher.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Quite the opposite, if you must know, I wish, but
too much too quickly.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
As now, gentlemen, I know you've been curious about my intentions.
I propose to take the ball by the horns tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Satisfied now, Hornbler, I trust.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
You're all satisfied, mister Bush, your pardner, Sir, we'll round
the Samana Point and force our way straight up the bay. Here, gentlemen,
if you won't take many broadsides to wipe out any
shipping at anger, particularly any privateers, sir, just sir, mister Roberts,
We'll sink them or burn them. Then we can decide
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what to do next.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Any questions, No trouble with the tide, sir, as I
understand none. What about the south shore of the bay,
mister Batram, there is the.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Fourth I have a plan to deal with the situation.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Mister Roberts.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Have you anything to ask, mister Hornbler, No, sir, and
then then will be all for the presents, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
The gun.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Stomach's still troubling, not happier at the prospect of action.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Not this one, mister Bush.
Speaker 14 (11:34):
Fair Tex production war has to watters, rare production.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Bush was in command of the lower gun deck and
of the seventeen twenty four pounders on the starboard Betrian
under him, I commanded.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Those of the port side.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I saw a group of the surgeon's crew carrying the
straight jacketed figure of Captain Sawyer to the safety of
the cable tier, the pitiful wreck of a man writhing
and weeping. There were ships boys with buckets of sand
to give firm foothold to the guns crews. A ring
of extra fire buckets ran the main mast. Slow matches
smoldering in tubs for the rekindling of linstocks, a marine
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with fixed bed it posted at each hatchway, the gunners
and list slippers standing by their tables, the powder monkeys
scurrying about the deck, each carrying a charge for the guns,
the breechings cast off, and the gun crew standing by
ten men by every gun on the starboard side five
on the port side. Bush would redistribute them when.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
And if necessary. We don't run the guns out yet,
mister Hornbler, very good, sir, Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Mister Waller, mister Butler's parliaments, I'm pleased to run their
guns out.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Thank you, apports.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Run out.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Will you try and arrange your shots at the batteries
when your guns.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Bear, sir, your orders, mister Wellard, No, sir, mister Butler's
then say so, I respect to mister Butler's and it
will be some time before my guns are in range. Yes,
mister Hombler.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's a point running out of head, mister Bush. You
see the shallows there, sir. Now the channel must bend
around them, and there's a battery out there.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
On the point. You see this moon. They must be
heating for red hot shots.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I say, we'll be under crossfire, not for too long.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I hope that's the thoughts, no doubt, And here.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It comes there.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Ain's pretty good, mister Bush, too good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I might just reached the battery on this side.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
NASA, let's talk what you can do.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Can't you open why?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
He mister Bus? This minutes a fire?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh just shorts.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
When the guns are hot delas carry on there, mister Hambler,
open far.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fast in the john.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Secondly, the John, the red.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hot shot had begun to strike home on renowned Smoke
was curling up from a deep gash in the deck
beams by my head. From above, I could hear the
rush of feet and the clank of pumps, which told
me that on the main deck too, they were fighting fires.
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Then I realized something strange in the feet of the
deck under my feet, a perceptible slope, a queer sense
of rigidity and permanence. We'd run aground smoothly on a
mud bank, doomed to be shot to pieces by the
accursed foot as the battery failed to roast us alive
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where we lay.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's still rising, mister Hombler.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's an arm for high water on with a pretty
hard ground.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Tad You there, WoT that gun out properly? You won't
your hands blown off when you reload.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
An out of high water, say mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yes, God help us.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
If I can keep their embracious sweats, I'll slow the
rate of fire even if I don't silence.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
But the fort's still out of range.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yes, please report to mister butlin O we're a ground
and a fire.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Keep your mouth shut, mister Willard. I'll leave you in charge.
Down here, mister Hornblower. You wanted me, mister Buckland.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
We have to catch off this confounded sandbank. Mister Bushy,
guess a cable out half through a stern. Fort's very good, Sir, Roberts.
You must take the stream anchor off in the launch,
and shall I take the men from my gun?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Do that shifting the weight word?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Help?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Tell horn Blower to take some of the foremost guns
and run them off.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There might be an alternative, sir, but if I've fired
all my guns at once, it might.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Just break the suction worth. Try him, by god, I have.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Them loaded him ready in three minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I'll tell him the cats then, thank your.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sir, loaded double such a guns, try and run.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Out, await my order.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm sure it's our best chance, mister Butler, no.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Need to explain.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We'll try it.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
It's a pretty pickle, mister Bush. Poor Roberts is dead.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Roberts cut into by a shot as he entered the launch.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It makes you my number two.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Mister bush.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Settler.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
The captain bars there, praise your feet. Tell mister Hornbler
to fire his guns when ready, mister Bush, take this.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Train heave there, heave.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Wh tables shifting, by God, I think right.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You've come to the quarterdeck with me, mister Hombla.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Hi ay, sir, no more fight for.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Further order, sir.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
So far, so good, mister Bush. We're off ground, but
we've lost the flood. If we touch again, catching off
maybe impossible.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, sir, we could get out with the I know
that as well as you do, mister Hornblower.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
But do you know what that means? It means defeat
my first command.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Help powders the piece, sir. There's no help for it.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Help them heave in on the spring cable.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Mister Bush. Hit her head round to see.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
I answer fast, heaving on the caps and there car
staff stand cable messenger.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Shall I whop it down the bay, mister Buckler, Yes, yes,
whoop her down.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
When the tropic night closed down upon the battered renown,
ducklan sent for Bush and me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
As Kevin was like an oven.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's two lanterns seem to give a had an intolerable heat.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We sat staring at the.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Chart upon the table, while the sweat trickled under our uniforms.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
The question is what's to do should we bear up
for Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I wouldn't go so far as to advise that sound.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
What else can we do?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Mister bush tell me that if we head for Jamaica,
so we go with our tail between our legs.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
True, all the same, there's Captain Sawyer to be thought of.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Captain Sawyer.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
With a success to our record, there might be a
less diligent inquiry into the matter of Captain Sawyer's supersession.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
If we limp In defeated, I'm likely to.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Be asked why I took upon myself the responsibility of
attacking some manor point.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
What do you think, mister Hornbler?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I agree you do? Do you? Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
We did our best.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Damnit.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Anyone could run around in the channel, nothing could get
up the bay under such a crossfire.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We might still make a landing on the seaward side, Sir,
A landing and a surprise attack, mister.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Bush Well, Sir, go on. Mister Hornbler didn't mention to
me he thought a surprise landing might have more chance
of success than bombardment of the Fortune battery. But that
was before the Duns knew there was a ship of
the line in the neighborhood.
Speaker 15 (20:30):
Why didn't you suggest this masterly plan to me, whom
mister hornblwer It was hardly my business, mister Buckland.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
That responsibility for successful failure is mine. Have you changed
your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think something might still be tried, sir, as long
as it was tried at once you mean tonight, it
would be the best.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Time, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The Dons have seen us driven off. Excuse me, sir,
but that's how it looked to them. The last I
saw us was beating out of the bay at sunset.
They'd be pleased with themselves. But an attack at dawn
from another quarter over land that would be the last
thing they'd expect.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Might will be just how would you make this attack,
mister hornber.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, The wind's fair for Scotsman's baser. We could be
there in less than two hours. We could have a
landing party told off and prepare by the time we arrived,
say one hundred seamen and the Marines. There's a good
landing beach there inland. The country may be marshy. That's here,
just be the hills of the peninsula. But we can
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land on the peninsula side of the marsh.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I marked the spot yesterday?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
You did, did you.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, a landing party should reach the crest with that difficulty.
They can't lose their way with the sea on one
side and Samana Bay on the other. They simply move
along the crest, then rush the fort at dawn. Now,
what with the marsh and the cliffs, the dawns are
liable to keep a poor look at on that side.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
You make it a little sound very easy, mister Hornblower.
With one hundred and eighteen men enough, I think, sir?
What makes you we're so sure there were six guns
firing at us from the fort. I counted them ninety
men at most sixty maybe near the mark. Add an
ammunition party and men to heat their furnaces. One hundred
and fifty men altogether, more likely as few as one hundred.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Do you think such an attempt might succeed, mister Bush?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
It might, sir, but time is getting on.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
A second repulse would be ruined. Yet, once the fort
is in our hands, we can deal with the privateers
up the bay. They could never use it as an anchorage. Again,
that's true, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Damn it.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Let's try it very good. Now, who's to command it?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Would have been robbers. You to sir if he'd left.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Mister Bush, you will take command.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Guess, sir, who do.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
You want to take with you?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do you require me any more, mister Buckland?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
If not, do we need mister Hornbler anymore?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Mister Bush, I'd like mister Hormbloer to come with the
landing Partiser, very.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Well, It will leave me with only one lieutenant aboard.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Several of the master's mates are good watchkeeping officers, sir, very.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Well, you look troubled, mister Hornblower.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
What is it I was wondering about altering course? Sir?
We good head for Scotsman's bed once and and say
a little time.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
We'd better get her before the wind. We'll set course
in a few minutes. Any further suggestions.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Mister horn Blower, only one, sir. We might take with
us some grapnels with lines attached. They might be useful
if we have to scale the walls.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I agree, Remember to see the issued. Yes, will you
need a runner It would be as well, sir, anyone
particular a young Willard. He is reasonably cool headed and
thinks quickly.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
Then all is settled, yes, sir, and only remains to
set course and issue the orders. You will see to it,
mister Bush, if you please, I I sir, Oh.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
Mister Hornblower, I've been meaning to ask you, how, in
your opinion did Captain Sawyer I've come to fall down
the hatchway.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I fancy he must have overbalanced mister Buckland. The
ship was lively that night, if you remember, yes, I
suppose she was.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh well, then mister Bush, carry on if you please.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Good of you to ask for me.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Mister Bush, you deserved it. It was your notion in
the first instance.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm glad you picked the young Willard.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He needs a change from the ship after what he's
had to put up with from sire. That's true enough
any more news, said the captain, ask Clive. All he
does is shrug his shoulders and wink and look the
other way. But I can't believe soil will last much longer.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'd not be in buckland shoes unless this landing comes off. No,
certainly should help him. I don't look forward to the
inquiry for all that. No, Well, if you'll have course
set for Scotsman's I'll give the orders for the landing party.
You'll not forget the grapnels mister Busher, will you ever
forget anything?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Home Blower, Where the Samana Peninsula began, a small watercourse
had worn a wide gully in the cliff at the
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easterly end of the beach. That night, sea and surf
and the beach seemed to be a fire, with the
phosphorescence of the water vividly lighting up the oar blades.
As the launches pulled ashore carrying the landing party, we
landed thigh deep in water, and it seemed thigh deep too,
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in liquid fire. Our weapons and cartridge boxes held high
to make sure they were not wetted. Bush was excited
and tense. It was all I could do, within the
bounds of discipline, to hold him back from plunging ahead
at once in violent action. I might have sounded confident
enough in Buckland's cabin. There was another matter on that beach,
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in the darkness, with the conviction growing that on the
success of our enterprise depended not only the lives of
myself and Bush in one hundred and eighty men, but
also the reputation of renowned and first Lieutenant Buckland's professional future.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
In Part two of Lieutenant Hornblower, you heard Nigel Anthony
in the role and as the narrator, with Terence Skelton
as William Bush. Mister Buckland was played by David Piert,
Mister Roberts, Paul Hertzberg, Wellard the Boy, Mark Hudson, and
mister Clive the Surgeon John Jardine. Location recordings were made
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by Christopher Haydon Webb and David Fleming. Williams Aboard the
IP torso. The musical score is by Johnny Pearson. The
Hornblower story is directed from Manchester by Trevor Hill.
We present Nigel Anthony in the Hornblower Story, adapted from
four of the C. S. Forester novels by Val Gielgud
with Terence Skelton as William Bush. Part two from Lieutenant
Hornblower sealed Orders.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
While Renown plowed her course westwards across the Atlantic to
the West Indies station, there were two questions which, for
her crew, and more especially for her officers, seemed the
passing of each day more urgently to require answering. Following
upon the accident, to Captain sawyer Wood, first Lieutenant Buckland
digging upon himself formally to assume the responsibilit that is,
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of taking command of the ship. And what were the
contents of those sealed orders from the Admiralty among the
Captain's papers, the orders which to find the objectives of
renowned mission.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
When she reached her.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Station, swathed in a canvas strait jacket, the Captain lay
in his cabin. Unless reduced to insensibility by laudanum and bleeding,
he either screamed or sobbed.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
A crew that, under the tyranny.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Of her mind already deranged, had been fast disintegrating, could
now again be made seamen for the officers, and for me,
the junior Lieutenant Bucklan's decision was the vital thing. Only
with Lieutenant William Bush did I find it possible to
open the problem. How much longer before mister Buckland opens
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those orders, mister.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Bush, God knows. If it takes the ship down to
Antiquer only to find out afterwards that he has to
beat it back to Winwood, he'll get his che was
wrapped finely by my lord's. And if he reads secret orders,
he's liable to be reprimanded for presumption what you're reading,
mister Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Great, just out as you'd ever measured. I have never
been as fast out as this before.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And what's your results?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm not certain what's the difficulty. I can shoot the sun,
no trouble about that. It's the calculations that bother me.
All those damn corrections.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh well they're not so hard, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No check against mine plot the position with parallel rulers.
There's the point of interception. Now we can check against
dead reckoning. I see I we're still being set to salad.
We're not far enough east for the Gulf stream to
say as knowledge.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You said you'd never navigated these waters before.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's so, Denhall.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, I suppose you've been studying at any rate.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There we are.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's something. Don't know that much. What do you think
number one will do? Mister Hormler.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He must make up his mind now or never. We
lose ground to lure every day from now on.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'd read the orders, mister Bush. I'd rather be in
trouble for having done something. They're not doing anything. I
wonder whose orders made attaches on independent service.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's a chance in the thousand for Buckler.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I suppose it is you wish it was yours.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I must put these things away.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm exercising the lower deck guns cruise afterhands have had
their dinner and the first dog wakes out for that, Yes,
mister Hornblower, permission to have the deck wash pump.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Ricks men feeling these eh?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I don't know about them, but I am mister Robertson.
I have fifteen minutes sperenty of time. Oh very well,
thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Captain of the wastre get the wash deck pump, briggs
at one pole for the hose.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And jump to it. Give away.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
That's right, turn it on me.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Half per few sent a feat cooks.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Hornblower has some odd ball.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
He seems to be enjoying himself.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So rather him than me.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
That has pumping out, Captain of the Way, secure that plump.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Get the next bob.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Back with you in five minutes, mister Robarts, right out.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I hope what's.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Going on here, mister Roberts.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Mister Hornblower wanted a bath, mister Bucklund.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't know if.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It's good for discipline.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
We'll hope he doesn't get him self a fever. Checking
the sweat like that.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
No sign of that, sir, Well, it may clear his head,
perhaps he could clear mine.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Your sir, I need a clear head at this moment.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Send mister Hornblow to my cabin when he comes back,
mister Robarts, and ask the surgeon to join us.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This thing's got to be settled.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Aye, Aye, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Mister Bush, find mister Clive and let him know that
mister Buckland wants him in his cabin.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Will mister Clive?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
He's done it?
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Read the orders as far as I know, Yes, mister Robarts,
what do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
What was in them?
Speaker 9 (05:51):
They are secret orders, mister Robarts. Even if mister Buckland
had taken me into his confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I couldn't tell you, no need to be pompous about it.
What did the captain do?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What didn't he do?
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Mister Bush, poor devil. We might have been fiends from
the pit. We should have seen him card away when
we went into his cabin. But the thought we were
going to cut his throat instead of just finding the
key of his desk. That man is suffering the terrors
of hell.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
I suppose you would not be guilty of exaggeration, mister Clyde.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
I would not, sir, I repeat the terrors of hell
and all the sorrows of this world.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Hmmm, And did you find this precious key?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
We did?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Mister Buckland opened the desk?
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Well, mister Buckland found the orders usual linen envelope with
the admiralty seal, so.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He's now read them. And when Une the wiser, well,
God bless my soul. I don't imagine we can expect
to know what's in store for us. We've only been
at war for nearly ten years. We just obey orders.
Helmer LEI let go and haul grape shot in the
belly or Champagne in a captured flagship. Who cares we
draw our four shillings day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
We're all fine.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, I'll wager a week's pay on a change of
course when mister Butler's read those orders, mister Clive.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
No takers, Officer of the Watch.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Here's up.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We're alfhering course two points steer south west.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Course sour west, mister rabbit, sour west, it is, sir
by Paul, hands.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
To the bracers.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Another pull on that poor brace.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There your pardon, mister Baffert.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yes, mister Robert.
Speaker 10 (07:38):
Can you tell us our mission now?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sir? No, it is still secret.
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Very good, sir, but I can tell you where we're bound.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
San Domingo, Scotsman's Bay, San Domingo Hispaniola.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Haiti three names for the same island. I am obliged
to you, mister Bush. Hmm, haty, that's where the black
stir and belling against the Spaniards.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
That is so, I believe, mister Roberts.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
If you ask me, Captain Sawyer is not the only
one that's nervous.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
I didn't ask you, mister Clive.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
I wonder is it of the blacks or is it
because Captain Sawyer's still alive.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
I would suggest that, as surgeon, you go below and
attend to him, mister Clive, that is your business?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Can I have some company up here? Mister Hornbler, she's rolling,
damnably rolling.
Speaker 12 (08:36):
She's wallowing. Oh lord, yours must be a cast iron stomach.
Mister Bush, the devil must be Liehle too like this.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Mister Butler seems to want time to study the lie
of the land.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's been studying it through that telescope and he's for
a good half hour.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Why can't even take up his mind?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There's nothing to see at this range but the mountains
of San Domingo.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How much more does he want to see?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We know there's a fort up there flying the Spanish colors,
and everyone on shore must know by now that the
British ship of the Lion is prowling about the down
said have to be clever to guess we're not here
on a yachting trip. All we're doing is giving him
the time they need to prepare a reception for us.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
What else could Buckland do?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He could have come in with the sea breeze, under
cover of darkness, with a landing party, readily put the
mashore at dawn storm the place before they.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Knew there was any danger.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Oh damn, this is.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Browling, mister Roberts, sir, pay.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Her on the port tack horned by eye, sir, port tack.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Holmes, many eye, sir.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
That's better.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
There's something.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I could wish we were going into action, running away
to think about.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It, anxious to meet fire, mister Horner.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Nothing like that, mister Butcher.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Quite the opposite, if you must know, I wish, but
too much too quickly.
Speaker 13 (10:16):
As now, gentlemen, I know you've been curious about my intentions.
I propose to take the ball by the horns tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Satisfied now, Hornbler, I trust.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
You're all satisfied, mister Bush, your pardner, Sir, we'll round
the Samana Point and force our way straight up the bay. Here, gentlemen,
if you won't take many broadsides to wipe out any
shipping at anger, particularly any privateers, sir, just sir, mister Roberts,
We'll sink them or burn them. Then we can decide
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what to do next.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Any questions, No trouble with the tide, sir, as I
understand none. What about the south shore of the bay,
mister Batram, there is the.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Fourth I have a plan to deal with the situation.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Mister Roberts.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Have you anything to ask, mister Hornbler, No, sir, and
then then will be all for the presents, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
The gun.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Stomach's still troubling, not happier at the prospect of action.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Not this one, mister Bush.
Speaker 14 (11:34):
Fair Tex production war has to watters, rare production.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Bush was in command of the lower gun deck and
of the seventeen twenty four pounders on the starboard Betrian
under him, I commanded.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Those of the port side.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I saw a group of the surgeon's crew carrying the
straight jacketed figure of Captain Sawyer to the safety of
the cable tier, the pitiful wreck of a man writhing
and weeping. There were ships boys with buckets of sand
to give firm foothold to the guns crews. A ring
of extra fire buckets ran the main mast. Slow matches
smoldering in tubs for the rekindling of linstocks, a marine
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with fixed bed it posted at each hatchway, the gunners
and list slippers standing by their tables, the powder monkeys
scurrying about the deck, each carrying a charge for the guns,
the breechings cast off, and the gun crew standing by
ten men by every gun on the starboard side five
on the port side. Bush would redistribute them when.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
And if necessary. We don't run the guns out yet,
mister Hornbler, very good, sir, Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Mister Waller, mister Butler's parliaments, I'm pleased to run their
guns out.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Thank you, apports.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Run out.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Will you try and arrange your shots at the batteries
when your guns.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Bear, sir, your orders, mister Wellard, No, sir, mister Butler's
then say so, I respect to mister Butler's and it
will be some time before my guns are in range. Yes,
mister Hombler.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's a point running out of head, mister Bush. You
see the shallows there, sir. Now the channel must bend
around them, and there's a battery out there.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
On the point. You see this moon. They must be
heating for red hot shots.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I say, we'll be under crossfire, not for too long.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I hope that's the thoughts, no doubt, And here.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It comes there.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Ain's pretty good, mister Bush, too good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I might just reached the battery on this side.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
NASA, let's talk what you can do.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Can't you open why?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
He mister Bus? This minutes a fire?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh just shorts.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
When the guns are hot delas carry on there, mister Hambler,
open far.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fast in the john.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Secondly, the John, the red.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hot shot had begun to strike home on renowned Smoke
was curling up from a deep gash in the deck
beams by my head. From above, I could hear the
rush of feet and the clank of pumps, which told
me that on the main deck too, they were fighting fires.
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Then I realized something strange in the feet of the
deck under my feet, a perceptible slope, a queer sense
of rigidity and permanence. We'd run aground smoothly on a
mud bank, doomed to be shot to pieces by the
accursed foot as the battery failed to roast us alive
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where we lay.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's still rising, mister Hombler.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's an arm for high water on with a pretty
hard ground.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Tad You there, WoT that gun out properly? You won't
your hands blown off when you reload.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
An out of high water, say mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yes, God help us.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
If I can keep their embracious sweats, I'll slow the
rate of fire even if I don't silence.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
But the fort's still out of range.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yes, please report to mister butlin O we're a ground
and a fire.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Keep your mouth shut, mister Willard. I'll leave you in charge.
Down here, mister Hornblower. You wanted me, mister Buckland.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
We have to catch off this confounded sandbank. Mister Bushy,
guess a cable out half through a stern. Fort's very good, Sir, Roberts.
You must take the stream anchor off in the launch,
and shall I take the men from my gun?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Do that shifting the weight word?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Help?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Tell horn Blower to take some of the foremost guns
and run them off.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There might be an alternative, sir, but if I've fired
all my guns at once, it might.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Just break the suction worth. Try him, by god, I have.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Them loaded him ready in three minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I'll tell him the cats then, thank your.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Sir, loaded double such a guns, try and run.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Out, await my order.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm sure it's our best chance, mister Butler, no.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Need to explain.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
We'll try it.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
It's a pretty pickle, mister Bush. Poor Roberts is dead.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Roberts cut into by a shot as he entered the launch.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It makes you my number two.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Mister bush.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Settler.
Speaker 11 (17:14):
The captain bars there, praise your feet. Tell mister Hornbler
to fire his guns when ready, mister Bush, take this.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Train heave there, heave.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Wh tables shifting, by God, I think right.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You've come to the quarterdeck with me, mister Hombla.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Hi ay, sir, no more fight for.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Further order, sir.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
So far, so good, mister Bush. We're off ground, but
we've lost the flood. If we touch again, catching off
maybe impossible.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, sir, we could get out with the I know
that as well as you do, mister Hornblower.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
But do you know what that means? It means defeat
my first command.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Help powders the piece, sir. There's no help for it.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Help them heave in on the spring cable.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Mister Bush. Hit her head round to see.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
I answer fast, heaving on the caps and there car
staff stand cable messenger.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Shall I whop it down the bay, mister Buckler, Yes, yes,
whoop her down.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
When the tropic night closed down upon the battered renown,
ducklan sent for Bush and me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
As Kevin was like an oven.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's two lanterns seem to give a had an intolerable heat.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We sat staring at the.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Chart upon the table, while the sweat trickled under our uniforms.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
The question is what's to do should we bear up
for Jamaica.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I wouldn't go so far as to advise that sound.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
What else can we do?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Mister bush tell me that if we head for Jamaica,
so we go with our tail between our legs.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
True, all the same, there's Captain Sawyer to be thought of.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Captain Sawyer.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
With a success to our record, there might be a
less diligent inquiry into the matter of Captain Sawyer's supersession.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
If we limp In defeated, I'm likely to.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Be asked why I took upon myself the responsibility of
attacking some manor point.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
What do you think, mister Hornbler?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I agree you do? Do you? Yes?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
We did our best.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Damnit.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Anyone could run around in the channel, nothing could get
up the bay under such a crossfire.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We might still make a landing on the seaward side, Sir,
A landing and a surprise attack, mister.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Bush Well, Sir, go on. Mister Hornbler didn't mention to
me he thought a surprise landing might have more chance
of success than bombardment of the Fortune battery. But that
was before the Duns knew there was a ship of
the line in the neighborhood.
Speaker 15 (20:30):
Why didn't you suggest this masterly plan to me, whom
mister hornblwer It was hardly my business, mister Buckland.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
That responsibility for successful failure is mine. Have you changed
your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I think something might still be tried, sir, as long
as it was tried at once you mean tonight, it
would be the best.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Time, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The Dons have seen us driven off. Excuse me, sir,
but that's how it looked to them. The last I
saw us was beating out of the bay at sunset.
They'd be pleased with themselves. But an attack at dawn
from another quarter over land that would be the last
thing they'd expect.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Might will be just how would you make this attack,
mister hornber.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, The wind's fair for Scotsman's baser. We could be
there in less than two hours. We could have a
landing party told off and prepare by the time we arrived,
say one hundred seamen and the Marines. There's a good
landing beach there inland. The country may be marshy. That's here,
just be the hills of the peninsula. But we can
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land on the peninsula side of the marsh.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I marked the spot yesterday?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
You did, did you.
Speaker 9 (21:35):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Well, a landing party should reach the crest with that difficulty.
They can't lose their way with the sea on one
side and Samana Bay on the other. They simply move
along the crest, then rush the fort at dawn. Now,
what with the marsh and the cliffs, the dawns are
liable to keep a poor look at on that side.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
You make it a little sound very easy, mister Hornblower.
With one hundred and eighteen men enough, I think, sir?
What makes you we're so sure there were six guns
firing at us from the fort. I counted them ninety
men at most sixty maybe near the mark. Add an
ammunition party and men to heat their furnaces. One hundred
and fifty men altogether, more likely as few as one hundred.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Do you think such an attempt might succeed, mister Bush?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
It might, sir, but time is getting on.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
A second repulse would be ruined. Yet, once the fort
is in our hands, we can deal with the privateers
up the bay. They could never use it as an anchorage. Again,
that's true, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Damn it.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Let's try it very good. Now, who's to command it?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Would have been robbers. You to sir if he'd left.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Mister Bush, you will take command.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Guess, sir, who do.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
You want to take with you?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Do you require me any more, mister Buckland?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
If not, do we need mister Hornbler anymore?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Mister Bush, I'd like mister Hormbloer to come with the
landing Partiser, very.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Well, It will leave me with only one lieutenant aboard.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Several of the master's mates are good watchkeeping officers, sir, very.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Well, you look troubled, mister Hornblower.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
What is it I was wondering about altering course? Sir?
We good head for Scotsman's bed once and and say
a little time.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
We'd better get her before the wind. We'll set course
in a few minutes. Any further suggestions.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Mister horn Blower, only one, sir. We might take with
us some grapnels with lines attached. They might be useful
if we have to scale the walls.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I agree, Remember to see the issued. Yes, will you
need a runner It would be as well, sir, anyone
particular a young Willard. He is reasonably cool headed and
thinks quickly.
Speaker 14 (23:39):
Then all is settled, yes, sir, and only remains to
set course and issue the orders. You will see to it,
mister Bush, if you please, I I sir, Oh.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
Mister Hornblower, I've been meaning to ask you, how, in
your opinion did Captain Sawyer I've come to fall down
the hatchway.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I fancy he must have overbalanced mister Buckland. The
ship was lively that night, if you remember, yes, I
suppose she was.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh well, then mister Bush, carry on if you please.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Good of you to ask for me.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Mister Bush, you deserved it. It was your notion in
the first instance.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm glad you picked the young Willard.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He needs a change from the ship after what he's
had to put up with from sire. That's true enough
any more news, said the captain, ask Clive. All he
does is shrug his shoulders and wink and look the
other way. But I can't believe soil will last much longer.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'd not be in buckland shoes unless this landing comes off. No,
certainly should help him. I don't look forward to the
inquiry for all that. No, Well, if you'll have course
set for Scotsman's I'll give the orders for the landing party.
You'll not forget the grapnels mister Busher, will you ever
forget anything?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Home Blower, Where the Samana Peninsula began, a small watercourse
had worn a wide gully in the cliff at the
(25:26):
easterly end of the beach. That night, sea and surf
and the beach seemed to be a fire, with the
phosphorescence of the water vividly lighting up the oar blades.
As the launches pulled ashore carrying the landing party, we
landed thigh deep in water, and it seemed thigh deep too,
(25:48):
in liquid fire. Our weapons and cartridge boxes held high
to make sure they were not wetted. Bush was excited
and tense. It was all I could do, within the
bounds of discipline, to hold him back from plunging ahead
at once in violent action. I might have sounded confident
enough in Buckland's cabin. There was another matter on that beach,
(26:09):
in the darkness, with the conviction growing that on the
success of our enterprise depended not only the lives of
myself and Bush in one hundred and eighty men, but
also the reputation of renowned and first Lieutenant Buckland's professional future.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
In Part two of Lieutenant Hornblower, you heard Nigel Anthony
in the role and as the narrator, with Terence Skelton
as William Bush. Mister Buckland was played by David Piert,
Mister Roberts, Paul Hertzberg, Wellard the Boy, Mark Hudson, and
mister Clive the Surgeon John Jardine. Location recordings were made
(27:19):
by Christopher Haydon Webb and David Fleming. Williams Aboard the
IP torso. The musical score is by Johnny Pearson. The
Hornblower story is directed from Manchester by Trevor Hill.
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