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 Anacreon (1813) and plundered two, which she had permitted to go on to Lisbon. "Anacreon" had recaptured the third, "Nostra Senora...", and then had set off in pursuit of the privateer. Loss: "Anacreon" foundered in the Channel on 28 February 1814 during a storm as she was returning from Lisbon. All aboard were lost. Notes Citations References HMS Anacreon (1813) HMS "Anacreon" had an extremely brief career. she was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year. Career: Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned her in May 1813, but she had apparently already been in service by then. On 9 April