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 Lapwing (1785) "Mercury". Aaron Thomas kept a journal from 15 June 1798 to 26 October 1799 in which he gave an account of his time aboard "Lapwing". This manuscript is now held by the University of Miami. During this period "Lapwing" sailed around the Caribbean visiting St. Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. In August 1799, "Lapwing" was also involved in the successful operation in which the British seized Paramaribo from the Dutch. Notes Citations References HMS Lapwing (1785) HMS "Lapwing" was a 28-gun "Enterprise"-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. "Lapwing" was first commissioned in October 1790 under the command