Description

Portsmouth, 1782. His Britannic Majesty's frigate, Phalarope, is requested to help the hard pressed squadrons within the Caribbean. Aboard is her fresh commander—Richard Bolitho. To any or all appearances the Phalarope is anything a chief might want, but underneath the floor she's a seriously disappointed ship—her wardroom split by small greed and desire, her deckhands suspected of cowardice under-fire and pushed to near-mutiny by mindless ill-treatment.