The Bomb Vessel

GOOD FOR NOTHING . .

That's what they said about the old Virago, a former bomb vessel now relegated to the role of service ship. But when Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command he is determined to restore it to its former fighting glory.

Against this hazardous background to the Baltic expedition in the spring of 1801, when Napoleon had reached supreme power in France and allied himself with the sadistic Tsar Paul of Russia, Drinkwater's actions in the complex and bloody battle of Copenhagen are crucial ...