Billy Budd (opera) percussion (six players [xylophone, glockenspiel, triangle, block, tambourine, side drum, tenor drum, bass drum, whip, cymbals, small gong, 4 drums (played by drummers on stage)]), harp, strings. Prologue "Scene 1: Main deck and quarter-deck of "HMS Indomitable" " "Scene 2: Address" Act 2 "Scene 1: Captain Vere's cabin" "Scene 2: Berth-deck" Act 3 "Scene 1: Main deck and quarter-deck" "Scene 2: Captain Vere's cabin" Act 4 "Scene 1: Bay of the upper gun-deck" "Scene 2: Main deck and quarter-deck" Epilogue Captain Edward Fairfax Vere, an old man, reflects on his life and his time in the navy. He reflects on
HMS Indomitable (1907) she was transferred to the Mediterranean on 27 August 1913 to form the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) with her sister ship "Invincible". She was slightly damaged in a collision in Stokes Bay with the minelayer "C4" on 17 March 1913. She was refitting in Malta in July 1914 when the deepening crisis forced the Navy to cut short her refit. "Indomitable", accompanied by , under the command of Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne encountered the German battlecruiser and the light cruiser on the morning of 4 August 1914 headed east after a cursory bombardment of the French Algerian port of