HMS Atropos is a fictional 22-gun sloop from C. S. Forester’s novel Hornblower and the Atropos, named after a Greek mythological figure. In the novel, Atropos is Horatio Hornblower’s first command as a Post-Captain. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The cover of the 1974 paperback edition of one of Foresters non-fiction titles: Hunting The Bismarck Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 – April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. ... Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester. ... In Greek mythology, Atropos was the third of the Moirae. ... Horatio Hornblower, 1st Viscount Hornblower,AKA Cpl Mitch Vallentine GCB (4 July 1776 - 12 January 1857) is a fictional character, an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, originally the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester, and later the subject of films and...

The Atropos is described as a Sixth-rate built at Chatham in 1781, a ship just large enough to support the dignity of a Post-Captain. Her commission under Hornblower began in November, 1805. Atropos had a varied career under Hornblower’s command, including retrieving sunken treasure off the coast of Turkey, rescuing kidnapped citizens of Malta from the Barbary Pirates of Tunis, and fighting a ship twice her size, the Spanish frigate Castilla (44). This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ...

References

C. S. Forester, "Hornblower and the Atropos", Pinnacle Books, Los Angeles 1984. The cover of the 1974 paperback edition of one of Foresters non-fiction titles: Hunting The Bismarck Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 – April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. ...

C. Northcote Parkinson, "The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower", Little, Brown & Company, Boston 1970. Cyril Northcote Parkinson (born July 30, 1909 in Barnard Castle, Durham County- died March 9, 1993 in Canterbury, Kent) was a naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his best seller Parkinsons Laws, which led him to be also considered as an...

See Also

• List of fictional ships