Hornblower Cruises & Events has modernized it’s iconic “Lord Hornblower” charter yacht and will re-christen it “Admiral Hornblower” on Thursday. “There is no more classic, or widely photographed or ...

FICTIONAL English naval hero Horatio Hornblower was in fact based on a Scots admiral, it has been revealed. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

The tiff over maritime boundaries in the Shatt-al-Arab between Iran and Great Britain seems to be over, with the British sailors and Marines released and returned to the U.K. I continue to suspect a ...

The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

Now married to Maria, Horatio Hornblower is soon sent by Admiral Pellew in search of the sloop Grasshopper captained by their old friend, Bracegirdle. The ship had been patrolling a stretch of French ...