[book]Ship of the Line
Hornblower gets a ship of the line in a fleat who's supposed to provide protection for a bunch of merchant fleats. As it happens the admiral of the fleat is newly married Barbara's husband. He's still torn betwean feelings to Barbara(who he met on his previous journey and offered him her love) and his now pregnant wife.
He also gets the command of a bigger ship HMS Sutherland. But he's short of people to work on the ship.
Anyway he set's sail and at the end after a battle with 4 French ships gets captured by French.