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) "Indomitable" had two paired sets of Parsons direct-drive turbines. The turbines were designed to produce a total of , but reached nearly during trials in 1908. "Indomitable" was designed for a speed of , but reached during trials. She maintained an average speed of for three days during a passage of the North Atlantic in August 1908. The steam plant comprised 31 Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers arranged in four boiler rooms. Maximum bunkerage was of coal, and an additional of fuel oil that was to be sprayed on the coal to increase its burn rate. At full fuel capacity,