1. About the author.

C. S. Forester, was an English novelist who is famous for

writing novels, few of his famous novels are Mr Midshipman
Hornblower, Hornblower and the Widow McCool, Lieutenant
Hornblower. Horatio Handblower series depicts a Royal Navy
officer during the Napolioic war in 1810. The Hornblower novel
Ship of the line was awarded with the James tait black meorial
prize in 1938. His other books such as The African Queen and The
good sheperd are turned in to movies.

2. The title.

Ship of the line tiltle tells it self how the ships travvels and fight
against other countries. It helps to give an idea to the reader about
the book very well. In the book content also it is self tells very
well about the ships and how these fights are going on at sea. Title
of the book gives an impressin to the reader to read the book by
the time that reared reads the title.

3. The book.

This book was written by famous writer C.S Forester. This book
tells the story of how the handblower and crew fought against the
french fleet and captuerd their ships. The book encourage the
reader to go through the entire series of 12 books and gives the
feeling and mind set of a sailor in 18’s.

4. Critical Appreciation.

Author of the A Ship of the Line novel is C. S. Forester. It is

an historical seafaring novel. It is about his heroic journey on
Horatio Handblower when he was working as the captain of a ship
of the line. By internally this boooks tries to give a better happy
ending and happy returning. This book is the seventh book of the
handblower series. However, this book was published published in
1938, and it was the second Hornblower novel which was
completed by C.S Forester. This book tells how the life of sea and
how hard it is. How to face the difficulties and challenges are
clearly mentioned in the book. The ending of the novel is a happy
ending with a happy return and it mortivates to read the next it
means the eighth book of the series of Handblower.

5. Conclusion.

This book contains an incident happend on may of 1810 around

seveneen years back into napolian war handblower was
comanding in his fleet first ship of the line. As it was a war shi it
was contating of weapons and around 250 men. When the ship
reaches the spain coast a fight against french ships was happend
and crew was able to capture four ships of the french fleet. This
book tells about the story of how this was happened.