Under fourteen captains, the ship Bellerophon played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794); the battle of the Nile (1798); and the battle of Trafalgar (1805). This book presents the story of an eighteenth-century fighting ship - known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian.
'Cordingly has unearthed a revealing study ... The account of Napoleon's brief incarceration on the ship in July 1815 is fascinating ... original and well-researched'
