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
USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7) on 26 November 1985 and placed in non-commissioned service in the U.S. Navys Military Sealift Command on 1 December 1985 as USNS "Indomitable" (T-AGOS-7), a United States Naval Ship with a mixed crew of U.S. Navy personnel and civilian merchant mariners. "Stalwart"-class ships were designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War anti-submarine warfare operations. Accordingly, "Indomitable" employed Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) equipment on Cold War underwater surveillance duties during the final years of the Cold War. After the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in late December 1991, requirements for