Their Lordships Request: A Harry Heron Adventure - Plot & Excerpts
"This is the season for the most favourable winds for it." The First Lieutenant lowered his telescope and said, "You may be in the right of it, though many of these seem to be coastal vessels and not John Company. See, the large frigate to seaward of the Indiaman, she wears the colours of the Bombay Marine, John Company's private navy, and her people more prosperous than we are like to be." "She seems well built and carries a heavy battery," Lieutenant Rae said as he studied the frigate. "A handy ship to have in a fight I shouldn't wonder." "Aye, she'll be the Hindustan," said Mister Wentworth joining them. "Teak built and carrying forty twenty fours on her gundeck." The signal telescope revealed the frigate's colours as those of the red and white barred ensign of the HEIC, colours worn by the Bombay Marine only East of the Cape of Good Hope by statute. The thirteen red and white bars replaced the solid red of the red ensign worn by all private ships of British registry and some naval ships when detached from a fleet.
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