![]() His initial period of service-perhaps a few months in duration-is marked by misery and abuse without any real purpose. He enters the service entirely ignorant, without any qualification, and seasick. The novel opens with Hornblower as a tyro midshipman posted to HMS Justinian. ![]() He is released following a courageous rescue of Spanish seamen. ![]() In early 1797 he is captured and spends the next two years in a Spanish prison. In 1796, he makes an audacious and successful attack on a Spanish galley and is made acting-lieutenant. ![]() He serves briefly aboard Justinian in an unhappy assignment and then transfers to Indefatigable where he has several incredible experiences and learns much. Horatio Hornblower joins the British Navy as a midshipman at the somewhat advanced age of seventeen during 1793. ![]()
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