HMS Lydia

HMS Lydia

HMS "Lydia" is a fictional ship from C. S. Forester’s novel "The Happy Return". In the novel, "Lydia" is Horatio Hornblower’s first frigate command.

The "Lydia" is described as a middle-sized Fifth-rate built at Woolwich in 1796 to the design of Sir William Rule at a cost of £19,070. Her commission under Hornblower began on March 12th, 1807. She sailed first to Alexandria, Egypt, but then in 1808 was given secret orders for a very ambitious mission to Central America. There, the 36-gun "Lydia" fought and sank the much larger Spanish ship of 50 guns, the "Natividad".

References

* C. S. Forester, "Beat to Quarters", Pinnacle Books, Los Angeles 1978.
* C. Northcote Parkinson, "The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower", Little, Brown & Company, Boston 1970.

ee also

*List of fictional ships


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