Seaflower
Julian Stockwin Audio Book

It is nearly two years since Thomas Paine Kydd was spirited away to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship Duke William. Now Tom is a shipwrecked sailor back in the land of his birth, a virtual prisoner, waiting to be summoned as a court martial witness.

In a political act, he and his fellow seamen are shipped out in haste to the Caribbean, and a spell ashore at the dockyard in Antigua shows Kydd another side of the Royal Navy. Then his friend Renzi contrives to reunite the crew of Artemis in Seaflower, a trim little topsail cutter that Kydd fell in love with the first time he saw her...