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
HMS Mediator (1782) Life of a Sea Officer", which includes details of his time on "Mediator". c. Nelson was soon involved in a quarrel with Moutray over rank and privilege. Moutray was the more senior post-captain at English Harbour, but was on half-pay. When Moutray raised a commodore's broad pennant aboard , Nelson ordered him to strike it. HMS Mediator (1782) HMS "Mediator was a "Roebuck"-class 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was built and served during the American War of Independence, but was reduced to a storeship and renamed HMS "Camel in 1788. She spent the French Revolutionary and part