From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is compelled to hand a deserter, to the seas off Cape Horn, storm-scoured gateway to the Pacific, the great cruiser PATRICIAN is tense with the threat of mutiny.
But, having disturbed a hornet\'s nest of colonial intrigue, Drinkwater finds that the Spanish are eager to humiliate him a.
Despite this, Drinkwater captures a Spanish frigate and meets the stunning Do a Ana Maria, daughter of the Commandante of San Francisco.
From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is compelled to hand a deserter, to the seas off Cape Horn, storm-scoured gateway to the Pacific, the great cruiser PATRICIAN is tense with the threat of mutiny