HMS Atropos

HMS Atropos

HMS "Atropos" is a fictional 22-gun sloop from C. S. Forester’s novel "Hornblower and the Atropos", named after a Greek mythological figure. In the novel, "Atropos" is Horatio Hornblower’s first command as a Post-Captain.

The "Atropos" is described as a Sixth-rate built at Chatham in 1781, a ship just large enough to support the dignity of a Post-Captain. Her commission under Hornblower began in November, 1805. "Atropos" had a varied career under Hornblower’s command, including retrieving sunken treasure off the coast of Turkey, rescuing kidnapped citizens of Malta from the Barbary Pirates of Tunis, and fighting a ship twice her size, the Spanish frigate "Castilla" (44).

References

* C. S. Forester, "Hornblower and the "Atropos", Pinnacle Books, Los Angeles 1984.
* 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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