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 St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) the white ensign being lowered for the last time on 2 April 1969. The base was then handed over to the land agent the following day, 3 April 1969. St Vincent College now stands on the site. HMS St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) HMS "St Vincent" was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located in Gosport, . The name was given to the Forton Barracks site in Gosport in 1927, after the one that been set up aboard the old first rate HMS "St Vincent" in 1862. The new HMS "St Vincent" was commissioned on 1 June 1927, originally