May 16, 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 (00:06):
Hold all hands, victer quarters, I'm Africa, can't buy. Let's
table better one broadside intent to please Captain Bush point.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Us on pocket, then stop, ny eyes are.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Ready fire, possessing Michael Redgrave as he has Forester's indominable
Man of the Sea ratio hornblower, enough to look.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Back and smile at this distance of time. So that
based my quarter deck in the burning sun that morning
long ago, I was smiling. That was not to imperil
my mission. I'd been obliged to turn over the Natividad
for the madman Don Julia, who called himself Divine Almighty
(02:20):
El Supremo. Now he was coming aboard to murder my prisoners,
the Spanish officers. I determined to save them at least.
Come here at you? Are you the Spanish sailing master?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I was this he meets besides the tapre there it's
of the virgin and child, you know, throw it overbad.
I prefer to have the pleasure myself. So no, which
(03:02):
is the youngest of your mate? I am sen everywhere?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You will hold up your hand and declare your destiny in.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Any other divine Lord and our gracious l Sprimo.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
With your hands. No repeat after me, I swear, h
I swear.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We know no sen I cannot, I dare not, shall not.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You shall be.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Turn throw that overboard.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No next man, youn't swear your destiny. There was no
further trouble from the officers. I took the new one
by one, as indeed they were, you see men, and
the tress spoke to the crew, and the exclaim Spaniel, Chinese, Negro, Indian.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Weeping Spaniards from the dominion of America. We didn't yield
the whole of the land from Mexico to fu With
the at his seat, there will be an end of
Spanish misrules, of brutal domination, of slavery in.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Mine and sees there will be land for everybody, freedom,
manhappiness and the hell. Supremo, you can join us all
the aternative you have seen now?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Who is for il Suprimoy?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I han't.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Thank you to Catley.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I think there is no money for your prize crew now.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Insubordination arise later, I Shaggy able to deal reading.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm quite sure you will, Sir Gerald. You'll order your
cro to withdraw and returned to the Lydia as my
boat bore me back to my ship I reflected bitterly
on the murder of the Spanish Master's mate. But there
was nothing I could have done. At all costs. I
must not fall out with Supremo or his followers while
my orders remained uncompleted. As I reached my own deck,
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the boom of a gun from the Natividad was answered
by one from the Lydia. A new flag was flying
from the peak of the Natividad, blue with a yellows
tar in the middle. Hi.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Fish.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If I hadn't be born a runny bull, I shouldn't
be here high this wife on my left, everything that
steer Hi. Half an hour later, El Supremo came riding
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down to the beach with his ragged retinue, and I
met it. As we rode out to the Linear, I
ran my eye over the ship to see that all
was ready to receive ally with full military for melody.
But before he mended the ladder, he remarked, the correct
salute for me, Capitan is twenty three guns. I suppose
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passed the word to mister marsh for twenty three guns,
JO have stricken mister Bush. It's two more than his
matters to himself. Disease is entirely, meaning with dinner will
be served shortly, El Supremo, would you care to come below?
I will dine here, Ald, let the food be brought
(07:04):
to me. The misery and embarrassment of our makeshift dinner
in the gun room into which we cut in with
Supremo's retinue rebversively cut short by the arrival of the
Officer of the war. A big happens there, But there's
a making from the shore. I can't understand what he said. Well,
I come on back. I think you better accompany me,
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mister Bush, Thank your sir, last Lord, Thank heaven. I
seem to dad and murderous gang. I cat helps him
in life, soldier. You know a week back he didn't
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I when the captain up, he don't stand what he's
standing from this Supreme up enough.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And we are there alongside.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Come on answer up.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right there.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We aren't sitting here all day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Jocu has got pot of monkeys, yet he's not his
old stairs. And you find time to go swells it.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Can swim fire well, I fish, Oh, I'll go in
court here the way there, well here goes in the
World war and they can't go all right?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right? Thank God, I'm come on board after Come right.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Now, go on up the ladder.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Come on, I come bying you and see you get
him sick.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well done, Then I'll see you get an extra top
for that piece of work. I'll get that man below
and find him some dry clothes. Cop it down blinks
me by hanging those two men from the yard. What
I said, Please hang that clumsy fool of a soldier.
I will not have fools in my army, and your
seaman must be hanged for daring to save a man.
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I would prefer to have been drowned with all due
respects to premise, if I did what you wish, my
men would no longer respect me. And it's essential for
the success of oh adventure yours in mind that I
should keep the loyalty in love of my crew.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Love, Capitain, I will show you love me.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Where is that strum who fell into the same spread?
Why I'm here. I shall be merciful because it pleases
me to be solved. I was going to hang you,
but instead I gave you permission to drown. Chief suld
Sin Robby. He's going to jump overboard. Song and now Capitain,
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you will corpang your man. I bowed your wish, Supremo.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
But may I not have the honor of following the
lesson you have so kindly told me. I do not
understand you, Capitain, Allow.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Me to demonstrate.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Harvey.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Come here, I'm here, sir. You have displeased Supremo Harveen,
which means death. I give you permission to go, permission
to thank you kindly, sir. And the vanity of Supremo
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is so colossal that they never occurred to him that
Harvey was probably the finest diver and swimmer in the
British Navy. If I have dark memories of that time,
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I have l like ones too, And I cannot ever
remember such a feeling of relief as on the day
when I landed my mad and cutthroat ally of Supremo
at the port of Land Divartide, and he disappeared with
his murderous army in the direction of El Salvador. Well
the space I was free of him, and all his
works are no longer under the necessity of pretending to
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pay him homage. The sky was blue, the sea was
blue and silver. Then my pleasure I so far forgot
myself is actually to converse with Lieutenant Bush. It's pleasant
to be at sea again, mister Bush, I said to ourselves.
It's better than a tonic. Harvey's glad to return to work.
Tusor he didn't like hiding in the cable tear after
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we picked him up. He mightn't be a bad thing, sir.
That fellow Saprabo happened to get killed in the fighting. Well,
I don't know, mister Wood.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I well away on a poor bowser two Martin levers.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She's right the window.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Running down to us under roll fails.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
FU.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You'd like to look at our gun, sir, she hoped too.
Just out of range. He's setting a boulcher.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh. The dinghyd danced jerkily across the water, and presently
a man came scrambling up the ladder. So many strange figures,
admunted that ladder lad. This new arrival wore the full
dress of the Spanish Royal Navy, and his epaulets gleamed
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in the sun. He came forward and balked the Captain hornlawer,
I am Captain Honblower, Captain MANUELDI, after.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Your service, I have to welcome you with the new
all of Spain.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All Spain is as sure you it is not yet, Captain.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I've been seeing you for the past four days.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let me explain.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Last month Napoleon Bonapartes told our King denand from us,
and has named his brother Josef King of Spain. In consequence,
the Spanish government has signed a treaty of perpetual alliance
and friendship with His Majesty of England.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
This do doubt me, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I have heard some letters, one from your Admiral and
the Leewood Islands sent overland from Portobello, one from his Excellency,
the Viceroy Peru, and one from the English Lady. And
they're going enough to pardon me while I retire to
study these darkness, mister Bush, you will entertain captain death
until my return.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Everything appears to be an order treating to our new allies.
I am proud to be serving with Spain against the
Corsican dire. Thank you, Captain. You were very much afraid
lest you should fall in with the nativ Dad before
you heard the news, because she has not heard it either.
In that case, I'm afraid you'll find free.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
It would have come to serious hand that bring the prisoners.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Up from the cable to here quickly, and had a great.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Time to tell you, senior, that by evil chance, the
natividad met us a week ago.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You make the lativ dad. I plunged feverishly into an explanation.
But it was not easy to tell a Spanish captain
that I'd captured a ship twice my power without receiving
one shot, nor to explain that the ship was now
under the flag of El Supremo. Then a fresh and
hanssing aspect of the situation struck in something like ani
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a Guarian side.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
She's you arrived with Akapulco next month with priceless tida
winter sat time.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh, i've my well bankrupt our government very well. So
my duty is playing and I will take my ship
back to fighting that. Thank you, captain.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
You will call it Panama first to consult the Vice Rod. Yes,
then I will be to goodbye at the time. If
I reach Panama first, I would arrange your WECo.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You see that the bush the situation is complicated, So
you're for sir. After all, you have only a major advert.
The orders lords of the Admiralty will not allow such
a small point to influence their opinion of a captain
and his officers who are the cause of such trouble.
Mister bush, I feel you're right.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
However, there's another and more pressing matter. Lady Barbara Willesley
is at Panama and desires.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The passage in the Lydia to Europe.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Sir, how could he.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Carry you to lady the Lydia think it is partly
equipped for comfort, that is what I will have to
point out to the lady. So if she has the
normal Wellesley blood in her, I suspect I should be
wasting my time. I assume to have an opportunity of
finding out the firsthand. We sailed into the roadstead of
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Panama the next morning. There's a mania about sir. An
English shady I think wants to go a boarder. She
see existing time to wait for permission. It seems we
shall take no action, mister busham.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Umm one of those masculine women. No real woman would
catch and climb a rope ladder like that. I love
an English woman doing in Panama without.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
A male escort.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Mister Kiman, please be so good as to have my
luggage brought up out of the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, there's the captain, madam.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Yes, so I see, but please have my luggage brought
up while I speak to him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I faced an internal struggle. I disliked the aristocracy. I
could not forget that, as a doctor's son I had
had to touch my hat to the local squire, the
foolish for a povertystric and figurate captain with no influence
to offend a member of such a family as the Wildesles.
For the present, I decided on icy formality.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Are you the captain of this ship, Sir.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Catain Hornblower, at your service, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well, I am, Lady Barbara Welsley.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I wrote you a note for questing a passage to England.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I trust you received it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I did, ma'am, But I do not think it wise
your ladyship to join this vessel, because, ma'am, we shall
shortly be an action with the enemy. Also, we shall
have to return to England via Cape Horn. Your ladyship
would be well advised to make your way to Portobello.
From now you could reach Jamaica and obtain a berth
in a West India packet which is accustomed to female pasenger.
I have informed you, sir, that there is yellow fever
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in portugelomer A thousand persons.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Died of it last week. That is why I removed
to Panama.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
May I ask why your ladyship was in Portobello.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Because, Sir, the West Indian package in which I was
a female passenger, was captured by a Spanish privateer and
brought there.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I see.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I regret, sir that I cannot tell you the name
of my grandmother's cook, but I should be glad to
answer any first the question which a gentleman of breeding wolout.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But we are going to have to fight, to fight
a ship of price our force, it will be dangerous.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
I would rather be on your ship, whomever you have
to fight, than to be in Panama with a yellow fever.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Mm oh, what of Cape Horne, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Well, I have no knowledge of it, but I've twice
rounded the Cape of Good Hope during my brother's governor generalship,
and I have never yet been seasick.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Uh mm hmmm.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Well, soon, Captain, I will come to think that I
shall be unwelcome aboard. I can hardly imagine that a
gentleman holding the king's commission would be discourteous to a woman,
especially to a woman.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
With my name.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I I was only doing my duty, man, and pointing
out the dangers to which you will be exposed. For myself,
nothing would give me greater pleasure than your presence. Surrender again,
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first to Well Supremo, and now to Lady Barbara. If
I offended this lady, I might well never command the
ship again. My wife and I might rot on half
pay for the rest of our lives. I was thirty
seven and not more than one eighth of the way
off the captain's list. Good will at the will it
might enable me to reach flag rag.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
The youruge is the board for thank you would be
so kind as to give this to the boat across.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Ma'am. There will be no room in your cabin for
a tenth of that luggage. I am aware of that, Sir.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I have wanted a cabin before that sea chest will
hold all our car The rest can be put away
your will. And now may I see my cabin.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You'll see your ladyship or frigate have few of the
luxuries of an Indiaman.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I was just thinking that it was scandalous that the
king's officer should be given such quarters, And as I left.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
To pay my call on the price roll, Where Should
I Save A.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Ratio? Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by C. S.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Faster music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by
Harry Allen Towers,
Hold all hands, victer quarters, I'm Africa, can't buy. Let's
table better one broadside intent to please Captain Bush point.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Us on pocket, then stop, ny eyes are.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Ready fire, possessing Michael Redgrave as he has Forester's indominable
Man of the Sea ratio hornblower, enough to look.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Back and smile at this distance of time. So that
based my quarter deck in the burning sun that morning
long ago, I was smiling. That was not to imperil
my mission. I'd been obliged to turn over the Natividad
for the madman Don Julia, who called himself Divine Almighty
(02:20):
El Supremo. Now he was coming aboard to murder my prisoners,
the Spanish officers. I determined to save them at least.
Come here at you? Are you the Spanish sailing master?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I was this he meets besides the tapre there it's
of the virgin and child, you know, throw it overbad.
I prefer to have the pleasure myself. So no, which
(03:02):
is the youngest of your mate? I am sen everywhere?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You will hold up your hand and declare your destiny in.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Any other divine Lord and our gracious l Sprimo.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
With your hands. No repeat after me, I swear, h
I swear.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We know no sen I cannot, I dare not, shall not.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You shall be.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Turn throw that overboard.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No next man, youn't swear your destiny. There was no
further trouble from the officers. I took the new one
by one, as indeed they were, you see men, and
the tress spoke to the crew, and the exclaim Spaniel, Chinese, Negro, Indian.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Weeping Spaniards from the dominion of America. We didn't yield
the whole of the land from Mexico to fu With
the at his seat, there will be an end of
Spanish misrules, of brutal domination, of slavery in.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Mine and sees there will be land for everybody, freedom,
manhappiness and the hell. Supremo, you can join us all
the aternative you have seen now?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Who is for il Suprimoy?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I han't.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Thank you to Catley.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I think there is no money for your prize crew now.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Insubordination arise later, I Shaggy able to deal reading.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm quite sure you will, Sir Gerald. You'll order your
cro to withdraw and returned to the Lydia as my
boat bore me back to my ship I reflected bitterly
on the murder of the Spanish Master's mate. But there
was nothing I could have done. At all costs. I
must not fall out with Supremo or his followers while
my orders remained uncompleted. As I reached my own deck,
(05:24):
the boom of a gun from the Natividad was answered
by one from the Lydia. A new flag was flying
from the peak of the Natividad, blue with a yellows
tar in the middle. Hi.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Fish.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
If I hadn't be born a runny bull, I shouldn't
be here high this wife on my left, everything that
steer Hi. Half an hour later, El Supremo came riding
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down to the beach with his ragged retinue, and I
met it. As we rode out to the Linear, I
ran my eye over the ship to see that all
was ready to receive ally with full military for melody.
But before he mended the ladder, he remarked, the correct
salute for me, Capitan is twenty three guns. I suppose
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passed the word to mister marsh for twenty three guns,
JO have stricken mister Bush. It's two more than his
matters to himself. Disease is entirely, meaning with dinner will
be served shortly, El Supremo, would you care to come below?
I will dine here, Ald, let the food be brought
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to me. The misery and embarrassment of our makeshift dinner
in the gun room into which we cut in with
Supremo's retinue rebversively cut short by the arrival of the
Officer of the war. A big happens there, But there's
a making from the shore. I can't understand what he said. Well,
I come on back. I think you better accompany me,
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mister Bush, Thank your sir, last Lord, Thank heaven. I
seem to dad and murderous gang. I cat helps him
in life, soldier. You know a week back he didn't
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I when the captain up, he don't stand what he's
standing from this Supreme up enough.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And we are there alongside.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Come on answer up.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right there.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We aren't sitting here all day.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Jocu has got pot of monkeys, yet he's not his
old stairs. And you find time to go swells it.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Can swim fire well, I fish, Oh, I'll go in
court here the way there, well here goes in the
World war and they can't go all right?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right? Thank God, I'm come on board after Come right.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Now, go on up the ladder.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Come on, I come bying you and see you get
him sick.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well done, Then I'll see you get an extra top
for that piece of work. I'll get that man below
and find him some dry clothes. Cop it down blinks
me by hanging those two men from the yard. What
I said, Please hang that clumsy fool of a soldier.
I will not have fools in my army, and your
seaman must be hanged for daring to save a man.
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I would prefer to have been drowned with all due
respects to premise, if I did what you wish, my
men would no longer respect me. And it's essential for
the success of oh adventure yours in mind that I
should keep the loyalty in love of my crew.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Love, Capitain, I will show you love me.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Where is that strum who fell into the same spread?
Why I'm here. I shall be merciful because it pleases
me to be solved. I was going to hang you,
but instead I gave you permission to drown. Chief suld
Sin Robby. He's going to jump overboard. Song and now Capitain,
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you will corpang your man. I bowed your wish, Supremo.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
But may I not have the honor of following the
lesson you have so kindly told me. I do not
understand you, Capitain, Allow.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Me to demonstrate.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Harvey.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Come here, I'm here, sir. You have displeased Supremo Harveen,
which means death. I give you permission to go, permission
to thank you kindly, sir. And the vanity of Supremo
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is so colossal that they never occurred to him that
Harvey was probably the finest diver and swimmer in the
British Navy. If I have dark memories of that time,
(11:14):
I have l like ones too, And I cannot ever
remember such a feeling of relief as on the day
when I landed my mad and cutthroat ally of Supremo
at the port of Land Divartide, and he disappeared with
his murderous army in the direction of El Salvador. Well
the space I was free of him, and all his
works are no longer under the necessity of pretending to
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pay him homage. The sky was blue, the sea was
blue and silver. Then my pleasure I so far forgot
myself is actually to converse with Lieutenant Bush. It's pleasant
to be at sea again, mister Bush, I said to ourselves.
It's better than a tonic. Harvey's glad to return to work.
Tusor he didn't like hiding in the cable tear after
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we picked him up. He mightn't be a bad thing, sir.
That fellow Saprabo happened to get killed in the fighting. Well,
I don't know, mister Wood.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I well away on a poor bowser two Martin levers.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
She's right the window.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Running down to us under roll fails.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
FU.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You'd like to look at our gun, sir, she hoped too.
Just out of range. He's setting a boulcher.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh. The dinghyd danced jerkily across the water, and presently
a man came scrambling up the ladder. So many strange figures,
admunted that ladder lad. This new arrival wore the full
dress of the Spanish Royal Navy, and his epaulets gleamed
(12:50):
in the sun. He came forward and balked the Captain hornlawer,
I am Captain Honblower, Captain MANUELDI, after.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Your service, I have to welcome you with the new
all of Spain.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All Spain is as sure you it is not yet, Captain.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I've been seeing you for the past four days.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let me explain.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Last month Napoleon Bonapartes told our King denand from us,
and has named his brother Josef King of Spain. In consequence,
the Spanish government has signed a treaty of perpetual alliance
and friendship with His Majesty of England.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
This do doubt me, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I have heard some letters, one from your Admiral and
the Leewood Islands sent overland from Portobello, one from his Excellency,
the Viceroy Peru, and one from the English Lady. And
they're going enough to pardon me while I retire to
study these darkness, mister Bush, you will entertain captain death
until my return.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Everything appears to be an order treating to our new allies.
I am proud to be serving with Spain against the
Corsican dire. Thank you, Captain. You were very much afraid
lest you should fall in with the nativ Dad before
you heard the news, because she has not heard it either.
In that case, I'm afraid you'll find free.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
It would have come to serious hand that bring the prisoners.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Up from the cable to here quickly, and had a great.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Time to tell you, senior, that by evil chance, the
natividad met us a week ago.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You make the lativ dad. I plunged feverishly into an explanation.
But it was not easy to tell a Spanish captain
that I'd captured a ship twice my power without receiving
one shot, nor to explain that the ship was now
under the flag of El Supremo. Then a fresh and
hanssing aspect of the situation struck in something like ani
(14:49):
a Guarian side.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
She's you arrived with Akapulco next month with priceless tida
winter sat time.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh, i've my well bankrupt our government very well. So
my duty is playing and I will take my ship
back to fighting that. Thank you, captain.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
You will call it Panama first to consult the Vice Rod. Yes,
then I will be to goodbye at the time. If
I reach Panama first, I would arrange your WECo.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You see that the bush the situation is complicated, So
you're for sir. After all, you have only a major advert.
The orders lords of the Admiralty will not allow such
a small point to influence their opinion of a captain
and his officers who are the cause of such trouble.
Mister bush, I feel you're right.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
However, there's another and more pressing matter. Lady Barbara Willesley
is at Panama and desires.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The passage in the Lydia to Europe.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Sir, how could he.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Carry you to lady the Lydia think it is partly
equipped for comfort, that is what I will have to
point out to the lady. So if she has the
normal Wellesley blood in her, I suspect I should be
wasting my time. I assume to have an opportunity of
finding out the firsthand. We sailed into the roadstead of
(16:06):
Panama the next morning. There's a mania about sir. An
English shady I think wants to go a boarder. She
see existing time to wait for permission. It seems we
shall take no action, mister busham.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Umm one of those masculine women. No real woman would
catch and climb a rope ladder like that. I love
an English woman doing in Panama without.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
A male escort.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Mister Kiman, please be so good as to have my
luggage brought up out of the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, there's the captain, madam.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Yes, so I see, but please have my luggage brought
up while I speak to him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I faced an internal struggle. I disliked the aristocracy. I
could not forget that, as a doctor's son I had
had to touch my hat to the local squire, the
foolish for a povertystric and figurate captain with no influence
to offend a member of such a family as the Wildesles.
For the present, I decided on icy formality.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Are you the captain of this ship, Sir.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Catain Hornblower, at your service, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Well, I am, Lady Barbara Welsley.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I wrote you a note for questing a passage to England.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I trust you received it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I did, ma'am, But I do not think it wise
your ladyship to join this vessel, because, ma'am, we shall
shortly be an action with the enemy. Also, we shall
have to return to England via Cape Horn. Your ladyship
would be well advised to make your way to Portobello.
From now you could reach Jamaica and obtain a berth
in a West India packet which is accustomed to female pasenger.
I have informed you, sir, that there is yellow fever
(17:39):
in portugelomer A thousand persons.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Died of it last week. That is why I removed
to Panama.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
May I ask why your ladyship was in Portobello.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Because, Sir, the West Indian package in which I was
a female passenger, was captured by a Spanish privateer and
brought there.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I see.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I regret, sir that I cannot tell you the name
of my grandmother's cook, but I should be glad to
answer any first the question which a gentleman of breeding wolout.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But we are going to have to fight, to fight
a ship of price our force, it will be dangerous.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
I would rather be on your ship, whomever you have
to fight, than to be in Panama with a yellow fever.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Mm oh, what of Cape Horne, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Well, I have no knowledge of it, but I've twice
rounded the Cape of Good Hope during my brother's governor generalship,
and I have never yet been seasick.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Uh mm hmmm.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Well, soon, Captain, I will come to think that I
shall be unwelcome aboard. I can hardly imagine that a
gentleman holding the king's commission would be discourteous to a woman,
especially to a woman.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
With my name.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I I was only doing my duty, man, and pointing
out the dangers to which you will be exposed. For myself,
nothing would give me greater pleasure than your presence. Surrender again,
(19:05):
first to Well Supremo, and now to Lady Barbara. If
I offended this lady, I might well never command the
ship again. My wife and I might rot on half
pay for the rest of our lives. I was thirty
seven and not more than one eighth of the way
off the captain's list. Good will at the will it
might enable me to reach flag rag.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
The youruge is the board for thank you would be
so kind as to give this to the boat across.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Ma'am. There will be no room in your cabin for
a tenth of that luggage. I am aware of that, Sir.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
I have wanted a cabin before that sea chest will
hold all our car The rest can be put away
your will. And now may I see my cabin.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You'll see your ladyship or frigate have few of the
luxuries of an Indiaman.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I was just thinking that it was scandalous that the
king's officer should be given such quarters, And as I left.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
To pay my call on the price roll, Where Should
I Save A.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Ratio? Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by C. S.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Faster music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by
Harry Allen Towers,
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