Court-martial three types: Special, Summary, and General. In Herman Melville's novella "Billy Budd" (first published 1924), the title character is convicted at a drumhead court-martial of striking and killing his superior officer on board HMS "Indomitable", is sentenced to death, and is hanged. The novella has been adapted for the stage, film and television; notably in Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera "Billy Budd". In C. S. Forester's 1938 novel "Flying Colours", Captain Horatio Hornblower is court-martialed for the loss of HMS "Sutherland". He is "most honourably acquitted". Court-martial A court-martial or court martial (plural "courts-martial" or "courts martial", as "martial" is a
USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7) contact with their families. Stateside operators freely cooperated making long distance calls for the grateful crew. The Navy retired "Indomitable" from service on 2 December 2002 and struck her from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. On 9 December 2002, "Indomitable" was transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA converted her into an oceanographic research ship. She was commissioned in the NOAA fleet as NOAAS "McArthur II" (R 330) on 20 May 2003, replacing the NOAA survey ship NOAAS "McArthur" (S 330), which was decommissioned the same day in a combined ceremony. "McArthur II" has berthing