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 Winchester (1822) She was used as an educational vessel for homeless and destitute children. She was replaced in 1876 by HMS "Nile", which in turn was renamed "Conway". The former "Winchester" was returned to the Admiralty on 1 September 1876, and was renamed HMS "Mount Edgcumbe". The Devon and Cornwall Industrial Training Ship Association was formed in 1874 to provide a training ship for the homeless boys of Plymouth, and "Mount Edgcumbe" was anchored in the River Tamar off Saltash. On 28 March 1912 another training ship, the HMS "Southampton", based in Hull, closed down. The boys aboard HMS "Southampton" were transferred