In March 1818, Captain Adam Bolitho takes command of the frigate Onward. With his stalwart coxswain Jago and the midshipman David Napier, Adam must accept both the challenge of commanding His Britannic Majesty's Ship onward, confronting old enemies and rivals to forge an alliance against corsairs and privateers in the Mediterranean.

In another thrilling Richard Bolitho adventure, the navy prepares for action at sea against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, as the American Revolution rages on the mainland.

The year is 1774 and Bolitho, now a newly appointed third lieutenant, joins the Destiny at Plymouth. The frigate is dispatched on a secret mission far south to Rio and then the Caribbean where they face the hazards of conspiracy, treason and piracy.

"H.M.S. Phalarope" is ordered to the Caribbean but the most deadly enemy is already aboard her.
"January 1782, Portsmouth" His Britannic Majesty's frigate "Phalarope" is ordered to the assistance of the hard-pressed squadrons in the Carribean. Aboard is her new commander Richard Bolitho. To all appearances the "Phalarope" is everything a young captain could wish for. But beneath the surface she is a deeply unhappy ship her wardroom torn by petty greed and ambition, her deckhands driven to near-mutiny by senseless ill-treatment

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As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again, but her company is mostly raw and untrained.

Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island. The great ship-of-the line s battered hull begins to groan as her sails snap in the hot wind."

Amid rumours of a French armada massing in the Mediterranean, Commodore Bolitho must seek out the enemy. A fleet, even a nation could depend on his decisions and he accepts the challenge as the price of his career.

Newly appointed Rear Admiral Richard Bolitho soon realizes that his experience, gained in the line of battle, has ill-prepared him for the intricate manoeuvers of politics during the hardship of blockade duty in the Baltic.

The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is only four months since the victory over the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, and the death of England's greatest naval hero. Bolitho's instructions are to assist in hastening the campaign in Africa.

As Captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of 46 guns, Adam Bolitho is required to 'repair in the first instance to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and reasonably assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron'.