This is the story of the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy ' the butchering of the officers aboard His Majesty's Frigate Hermione, 32 guns, in the West Indies in 1797. The author describes the events which end with the daring re-capture of the Hermione under the guns of Spanish forts, by 100 English sailors in six open boats in one of the most brilliant cutting-out expeditions in naval history.
- ISBN10 0805055665
- ISBN13 9780805055665
- Publish Date 15 June 1998 (first published 30 August 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Edition Henry Holt ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 376
- Language English