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 Diligent (1776) HMS Diligent (1776) HMS "Diligent" was the mercantile schooner "Byfield", which the Royal Navy purchased in 1776. She was wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in May 1777. The Royal Navy commissioned "Diligent " under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Dod in July 1776. On 18 May 1777 Dod went aboard , Captain Andrew Barkley, that "Diligent" "was beat to pieces upon the Gannet Rock Ledges". Barkley took "Diligent"s officers and crew aboard "Scarborough" at noon. A report, in the "Independent Chronicle" of 19 June 1777, dated Halifax 27 May, stated that "Diligent" was lost on the Gannet Rocks in