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 Indomitable (1907) to plunging shellfire, additional armour was added in the area of the magazines and to the turret roofs. The exact thickness is not known, but it was unlikely to be thick as the total amount was less than . She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd, at Govan. She was laid down on 1 March 1906 and launched on 16 March 1907. She was commissioned on 25 June 1908 before she was fully complete to carry the Prince of Wales to Canada. Immediately after commissioning, "Indomitable" embarked the Prince of Wales (soon to be King George V)