Description

This tale is placed in the wintertime of 1773, in and round the West Region of England. Midshipman Bolithois dispatch, the Gorgon, is set up for refit, and he with a few additional 'younger gentlemen' is allowed home for Christmas. Bolitho, now seventeen, returns to his family in Falmouth, taking with him his closest friend and other midshipman, Martyn Ballerina. Bolitho quickly finds that isn't well in Cornwall.