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
USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7) on 26 November 1985 and placed in non-commissioned service in the U.S. Navys Military Sealift Command on 1 December 1985 as USNS "Indomitable" (T-AGOS-7), a United States Naval Ship with a mixed crew of U.S. Navy personnel and civilian merchant mariners. "Stalwart"-class ships were designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War anti-submarine warfare operations. Accordingly, "Indomitable" employed Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) equipment on Cold War underwater surveillance duties during the final years of the Cold War. After the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in late December 1991, requirements for