A Ship of the Line

A Ship of the Line
	First edition (UK)
Author	C. S. Forester
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Horatio Hornblower
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Michael Joseph (UK); Little, Brown (US)
Publication date	4 April 1938
Media type	Print
Pages	304
OCLC	611456337
LC Class	PZ3.F75956 Shi2 PR6011.O56
Preceded by	The Happy Return
Followed by	Flying Colours

A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, A Ship of the Line, which follows The Happy Return, is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished Hornblower and the Crisis). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower novel completed by Forester. It is one of three Hornblower novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N..

^ The Observer, 3 April 1938, "This Week's Diary", London, p. 6

[1] The Observer, 3 April 1938, "This Week's Diary", London, p. 6

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