Billy Budd (opera) the conflict between good and evil, he is tormented by guilt over the case of Billy Budd on board his ship, HMS "Indomitable", some years earlier. The crew of the Indomitable works on deck. For slipping and bumping into an officer, the Novice is sentenced to be flogged. At the same time a cutter approaches, returning from a merchant ship where it has pressed three sailors into the Royal Navy. One of these sailors, Billy Budd, seems overjoyed with his situation – entirely different from the other two who are not so happy. Claggart, the Master-at-Arms, calls him "a find
HMS St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) HMS St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) HMS "St Vincent" was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located in Gosport, . The name was given to the Forton Barracks site in Gosport in 1927, after the one that been set up aboard the old first rate HMS "St Vincent" in 1862. The new HMS "St Vincent" was commissioned on 1 June 1927, originally like its predecessor as a training establishment for boys and juniors. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the boys were evacuated to the Isle of Man, where they merged with those evacuated from HMS "Caledonia"