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 Euryalus (42) August, after the surrender of Japan. She arrived back at Manus on 18 August and on 27 August sailed as TU.111.2 with the carriers HMS "Indomitable" and , the cruisers , , and the destroyers , and for the reoccupation of Hong Kong. On 29 August 1945 she entered Hong Kong with HMS "Swiftsure" and the landing ship . "Euryalus" was the last original "Dido" operational in Royal Navy, until 1954, mainly on the South Atlantic station. The ship was the most modernised of the original "Dido"s, having been extensively updated from October 1943 to June 1944 at John Brown