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The fourth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series

In The Bomb Vessel, a young Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of the old VIRAGO, to be sent to the Baltic as a cargo ship. Drinkwater's ambition is to turn VIRAGO back into a fighting ship, but he is thwarted by Lord Nelson. At the same time, Drinkwater's brother appeals for help in his desperate attempt to escape the gallows. As Sir Hyde Parker's fleet approaches the Danish coast, the VIRAGO is nearly caught in their destructive path. Amid gales and ice, Drinkwater strives to save his ship and his brother. In the spring of 1801, Napoleon had reached supreme power in France and allied himself with Tsar Paul of Russia. Against this hazardous backdrop of the Baltic expedition, Drinkwater's actions in the complex and bloody battle of Copenhagen are crucial.

It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied squadron commanded by the Duke of Clarence. The 'Great War' is at an end and Europe prepares to celebrate the return of legitimate monarchy.

But the victorious Allies are increasingly suspicious of one another. Alexander I, the capricious Tsar of Russia, believes he is the savior of the world, while Great Britain whose sea-power has guaranteed victory at sea and contributed to the military success of Russia, Austria and Prussia, remains at war with the United States of America. Out of the ashes of defeat, France's greatest survivor, Tallayrand, prepares to restore his beaten country to the forefront of European pollitics. Amid this upheaval, discontented Bonapartists plot to restore the eagle whose shadow still lies across the continent.

 Attending King Louis, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is alarmed to receive secret intelligence that a new and imminent threat exists to peace.

События, о которых идет речь в этом рассказе, написанном в 2001 году специально для сборника “The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles”, происходят в августе 1801 года, между четвертым (“The Bomb-Vessel”) и пятым (“The Corvette”) романами «Саги о Натаниэле Дринкуотере».

The fifth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series

Commander Drinkwater's experience of battle was what mattered when Earl St Vincent entrusted Drinkwater with his new command — as escort to the Arctic whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland seas. With the French established as masters of the war upon trade, violent action ensued.

Небольшая повесть Ричарда Вудмена «Пирамидальная скала» входит в цикл романов «Сага о Натаниэле Дринкуотере». Время действия повести — 1788 год, между первым («Око флота») и вторым («Королевский куттер») романами саги. Натаниэль — старший помощник капитана лоцмейстерской яхты, выполняющий особое задание на корнуольском побережье.

The year is 1813. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department. While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads Drinkwater into the forbidding fjords of Norway, and one of the most desperate missions of his career.

Increasingly isolated and affected by the long war with France and her allies, Drinkwater pursues his personal odyssey against often daunting odds. In a compelling narrative the author brings vividly to life conditions at sea during the Napoleonic wars.' The fate of one of Napoleon's most charismatic marshals is linked with American privateers, escaped prisoners and the Danish Navy resulting in a violent confrontation set beneath the aurora.

It is 1811 and Napoleon's French Empire dominates Europe. Desperate to stem the encroaching French tide and avert war with the emerging power of the United States, the Royal Navy orders Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater to the Chesapeake Bay to heal the rift between London and Washington.

Quite by chance, on the banks of the Potomac, Drinkwater discovers the first clue to a bold plan by which the U.S. could defeat the Royal Navy, collapse the British government and utterly destroy the British cause. Amid personal crisis, Drinkwater takes command of a squadron sent against the Americans in the South Atlantic, audaciously risking his reputation and, in a climactic confrontation, coming face-to-face with the horror of an interminable war.

На сегодняшний день перу Ричарда Вудмена принадлежит около двух десятков произведений, включая четырнадцать томов серии о Натаниэле Дринкуотере и книга о морской службе Тринити Хауз — «Хранители моря». Им также написаны «История корабля», различные исследования о Второй мировой войны, об арктических и мальтийских конвоях, а также захватывающая история фрегатной войны во времена Французской революции — «Воины моря».

К плаванию под парусом Вудмен пристрастился с детства. Он получил опыт управления судном с прямым парусным вооружением, плавая на судах «Роялист» и «Эндевор Реплика» (восстановленной прогулочной яхте викторианской эпохи). У него есть пятитонный гафельный куттер «Андромеда», на котором он совершает плавания, главным образом вдоль берегов Англии и в южных водах Северного моря. Его привлекают в качестве советника Национальный Военно-морской музей и парижская студия «Эдвенчер Филмз».

«Око флота» (An Eye of the Fleet) — Первая книга серии о Натаниэле Дринкуотере. Действие книги развивается в начале 1780-х гг. Юный мичман Дринкуотер начинает службу на одном из фрегатов Королевского флота. Ему предстоят как сражения с американцами и французами в ходе Войны за независимость, так и борьба за самоутверждение в корабельной команде.