In the NavyChapter 4 Captain
Anthony Carter, not quite 24 years of age, unfolded the crackling parchment. He looked at the crew of HMS Medusa, swallowed once and began to read loudly from the paper in his hand: “Orders given to me, Anthony Carter, Esq., Captain Royal Navy, by Lord Wilbour Desson, K.C.B., Vice Admiral of the Red and Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Naval Forces in the West Indian waters. “Sir, you are hereby requested and required to assume the acting command of H.M. frigate Medusa, lying at present...