Billy Budd (opera) the conflict between good and evil, he is tormented by guilt over the case of Billy Budd on board his ship, HMS "Indomitable", some years earlier. The crew of the Indomitable works on deck. For slipping and bumping into an officer, the Novice is sentenced to be flogged. At the same time a cutter approaches, returning from a merchant ship where it has pressed three sailors into the Royal Navy. One of these sailors, Billy Budd, seems overjoyed with his situation – entirely different from the other two who are not so happy. Claggart, the Master-at-Arms, calls him "a find
HMS Indomitable (1907) two, killing all but six of her crew of 1,032 officers and men, including Rear-Admiral Hood. "Inflexible" and "Indomitable" remained in company with Beatty for the rest of the battle. They encountered Hipper's battlecruisers only away as the sun was setting about 20:19 and opened fire. "Seydlitz" was hit five times before the German battlecruisers were rescued by the appearance of the pre-dreadnought battleships of Rear Admiral Mauve and the British shifted fire to the new threat. Three of the predreadnoughts were hit before they too were able to turn into the gloom. The loss of three battlecruisers at Jutland