 Call all hands beat the quarters broadside into it to please Captain Bush point to some targets Michael Redgrave as C.S. Forester's indomitable man of the sea Horatio Hornblower Then I stood on the deck beside Captain Freeman and sailed into the enemy's stronghold The patched four tops will have been bent on the name Porter Chaley painted out the name flame instituted I forced myself to remain calm and apparently unmoved But Freeman beside me and had given up all pretence and was as excited as a schoolboy There's the harvester There's that French West Indian man. We saw go in this morning Well, there's a lighter beside her Of course, they wouldn't unload her at the key They'd put her cargo into lighters and send them up river to roar on Paris at the moment I'm more interested in the town's defenses on the shipping There are the ports of address and torn bill on that steep drift between light houses or uncapped at la haves The batteries there on that low ground beside the jetty Batteries are going to be our greatest danger. I don't expect the forts to find out what's going on in time to open fire I don't see why anyone should find out sir the ships this guy is and we've got plain p-jackets over our uniform Look look a lot of shipping further in might even be ships of the line. They haven't got the yards crossed I've never been in as close as this before it'll be dark soon. I hope the weather doesn't clear any more It's just light enough to find our way in and it'll be dark enough to cover us as we come out Sing on the leisure. Oh, that's the pilot lager coming out to us They think we're the flame sure enough very good That's the man to cheering at the port side secure the pilot when he comes on board. I'll calm the ship in You're a gang of mutineers saving your ship to the enemy is a prize. Come on. Let's hear from you Here's the pilot coming aboard leave Over with a wheel and on into the harbor the supreme and have you taken care of the pilot I have that sir. I put my shoulder into his back and shot him down the hatchway We're nearing the big Indian She lay with loose sails swinging to a single anchor In the fading light, I could just make out a dozen of her crew at her side staring curiously at us You may hoist out the boats. I I said shall I send the men into them? Well, only the picked man has arranged remember They had to take the Indian one without firing a shot once we alarm the shore we're lost. Oh, they understand sir They've been well-drilled No, it's a way they put a board miss a damn their job Look look here comes the Indian one too. There is you go. Mr. Freeman my hand at the letter, please I'm afraid we should gain no more time. The shore authorities will be a fully alert in a moment It's the cut of signaling the shore for the lantern Yes, and firing a musket to attract their attention Then by the go about this is going to be the most ticklish moment of our awkward passage There he is she goes Cutter must have cleared and loaded up our case a six pounder from the side of it There's the flame of it. No, but she can't see us very clearly. I can see the Indian one though She's coming around very neatly that master mate of yours is a good man This will be a different matter the 32 partners on the jet air in action now We should be right in their range as we run the journey Shall I reply to that father? No, no six partners will make no impression on that solid battery and flashes will reveal up Why aren't they firing again? Well, they've had time with several salvers I imagine Burnaparte has stripped his shore defenses of seasoned gunners for his army in Germany These gunners are probably untrained recruits and working in the dark is making them unhandier than ever They said it make no effort to avoid it The pilot lucker. I can see it's meaningful. I'm trying to block out escape And let the weakest go to the wall stand fast everybody That was closer they fired at the noise Getting into deeper water layer on the other tack it at least Mr. Freeman That hard to keep any trace of doubt or excitement from my voice I knew that success or failure depended on the chances of the next few minutes I Felt weak with apprehension Not merely for the physical danger that we were in but for the danger to my reputation, but I fail Then would not stop to think of my real motive They would say I tried to take advantage of the mutinator who feather my own mess by capturing a prize My honor as well as my life and liberty were at stake There he is he goes. We're not a range of the batteries What a shock for him there a loaded indium and taken out of harbour right under their very noses Very good piece of work, Mr. Freeman. All hands did their duty admirably Look any man who's disrespectful to the Commodore leave them alone, Mr. Freeman They mean well and they're excited. It sounds as though our price crew on the indium and share their feelings All hands will get a nice share of prize money and there will be at least a thousand pounds in it for you sir Yes, I should go below mr. Freeman Well, that will do man Mr. Freeman, please be good enough to wish you grog through all hands With slight patches of mist and the wind backing south by west As I came on deck for my bath under the pump I noted that we were hope to with the captured indium and the stern I Knew that I should send her back to England at once but I could not do that without writing a report Mutinous flame to deal with that when I could think about reports Yes, there she is sir. Just coming out of that mist bank. There's only one thing to do We'll have to fetch her out clear the ship protection. Hi, sir News must have got around on shore now that the brig with the patched sail is playing a double game and they'll be watching for another move We delay the mutineers might get in touch with the shore again and explain. Yes, or if they see from the shore There's two brigs with patched sails. They may guess what's been done It's quite so well see the man have some breakfast first and it will be best if the guns will not run out yet. I really could say Oh To the French was not so easy as they thought out a little as I realized that within an hour of the deck I thought would be swept with the caronades of the plane within that hour and I Might be dead or shrieking under the surgeon's knife They think those craft are coming out to welcome them. Hmm. They're in for a shock. I mean, sir Hello, they're not so sure they're hesitating. Look, you can see them spilling the wind from their men's off Probably an argument going on aboard between those who only want to keep out of our range Those who want to go over to the French their argument will be soon resolved Those craft are going boats and that luggers full of men a warning shot to make the frogs keep the distance Look, sir. Look the frames realize the carter hostile. She's wearing round too late. They're closing in on it an opening fire Look, sir. Look look the men from the lugger aboard in the flame that they'll take her run the guns out quickly At least we shall fight against Frenchman and not Englishman gunners. Listen to me They're going in among those gun boats, and they must be sunk Aim true at the base of their masks and don't fire until you're sure you can hit but among the gunboats then Our caronades went off on both sides On our starboard side. I had one gunboat under my eye Half a dozen men by her tiller two men at each sweep of midships a dozen that the big gun for it Our shots came smashing in fired at extreme depression. They smashed straight through the frail shell of the boat Sides caved in the seas surged over her the big guns slewed and Only a few bobbing heads in the water showed where she had been The same on the board side webber was responsible for exposing those small boats to our fire was a fool Now the lugga and the flay what folks are here Mr. Freeman load with canister if you please We'll run alongside the French lugga one broadside and then we'll board it in the smoke I don't I shall want every available man in the boarding party if you mr. Freeman will stay here Oh, but you'll stay here fix six good semen to stay with you and work the rig out if we don't come back Is that clear mr. Freeman? Yes, sir ratio Helmsman players alongside that lugga gunners. You see that every shot tells Borders you ready to come with me It was brown. I saw him striking left and right Then I was beside him in the struggling slashing mass Assembled over a pile of dead and wounded men who had been caught in the blast of shot from our break That stumble saved my life for a blade snicked past my head as I pitched Trust as I recovered disposed to my attacker and I find the pistol in my left hand of the blue uniform figure which loomed through the smoke But now the wind blew the smoke clear fighting around me every way And I could see again Our master's mate was running down the tree color from the masthead On the starboard side was the flame. I could see French infantry shakers over her bullwits The second wave of borders came pouring in from the Porta Tralee Some window was out The ship's ours, sir. All the mutineers down below our fancy term now some of the French is on there too, sir cowards Rather die on deck than scuttle into a hole like a rat We'll have them out of it couple of cables links away and show water The flame the lugga and the Porta Tralee all locked together made a huge target Another shot crashed into us and then another 24-pound bulls were smashing through the whole trail length of the bridge tearing their way through the cowarding Mutineers and French below decks Haste was essential if we were not to be sunk where we lay Get ready to make sail. What topman are there man the halyards put a man on the wheel Hello, mr. Freeman cast off and make sail rendezvous at the end of man Alive in our hoist where's that sail? We'll land hard to stop it Support the chalice and a price cruise working the lugga away. We'll all be out of range of the convulsion a minute Thank heaven the wind is offshore. Hello What's all that going on over side? I'm sure it's a business you can hear them froggies Just cramming out through the shuttles and jumping at the side I'll let them go half of the darn to the mutineers who were saved will get no mess hitting the fence after this Wait a minute. Where's the ring leader? Where's the annual suite? He must not escape. He must be brought to trial or killed He was below sir. Look Over there swimming. Yeah, you can see his wrong. Why dear You want something perhaps pick me off that white-haired swimmer with your musket Not willing 10 yards. Give me the musket reload quick or the villain will escape I'll have him a bad to jump over and swim to him. Here's another musket chair Thank you. Let me I wish I was a good shot myself. I'll do it to me He won't need no more new grades. Well Where is he? Corner. No, there he is. Look just see his hair trailing there. Ah now he's gone Yeah That's a horrible thing to have to do There's no more to it You will bear witness that I called on him to surrender Bless you sir. I should waste of breath. He's better off too. He'd only hang if he was stuck That white hair trailing like a horrible weed on the scene Was to haunt my dreams for long to come New to me was suppressed the flame re-taken the French defeated and valuable prizes secured Barbara and Richard and small bridge seemed close again Yet there was no joy in my heart as we sailed to rendezvous Only a nightmare vision long by trailing on Red tinted water chosen conducted by Sydney torch