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 Eagle (1745) was under the command of George Rodney between 1747 and 1748 during the War of the Austrian Succession. "Eagle" is also notable as being the ship in which James Cook began his career in the Royal Navy, serving from 1755 to 1757 as able seaman, master's mate and finally boatswain under Captain Joseph Hamar for his first year aboard, and Captain Hugh Palliser thereafter. "Eagle" was sold out of Navy service in 1767. HMS Eagle (1745) HMS "Eagle" was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. "Eagle" was built by shipwright John Barnard at Harwich