Released from the land <i>Indomitable</i> heeled over to the thrust of canvas and rudder, the sea almost brushing her lee gunports while she came abo… - Douglas Reeman

Damnation on doubt. It kills more good sailors than round shot!

Now he could see the difference. One hundred and eighty feet overall, and of some fourteen hundred tons, her broad beam betrayed that she had been built originally for the line of battle. Her sail plan had changed little, he thought. With a wind over the quarter she would run like a deer if properly handled.

I am telling you you must not care, sir. The three men died, but they helped to give us a small advance knowledge which we may use against the enemy. At the conference tomorrow they would all answer the same. A few lives to save the many is any captain's rule.