HMS Witch of Endor

HMS Witch of Endor

"HMS Witch of Endor" is a cutter in the Horatio Hornblower novel "Flying Colours". She was taken as a prize by the French Navy a year before the events of the novel, and moored at the mouth of the Loire River, at Nantes. There, she is taken by Hornblower and his companions, Bush and Brown, who are disguised as officials of the French Customs Service. With the help of some convicts, they are able to take her out to sea and rejoin the Royal Navy, meeting the blockading fleet.

References:

Forester, C.S. "Flying Colours" (collected in the omnibus edition "Captain Horatio Hornblower".)

Forester, C.S. "The Hornblower Companion."


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