#hornblower: Mutiny

[silverfoxstole]

It’s Wednesday; have a few random Mutiny gifs I found in my folder.

[aye-aye-captain]

Horatio Hornblower existing:

Everybody in the "Hornblower" fandom:

The rest of Tumblr:

[spockvarietyhour]

us? nooooo.

[know-it-all-freak]

One of my favourite Bush moments.

I love it when he's being sassy!

His stare in the end .... 😍

Credits to the maker of this.

[dangit-jacques]

God I wish he had been in more than just the last four episodes. I really enjoyed watching the Hornblower series.

This probably the most shouting Paul has ever done in his life.

Paul McGann as William Bush: Mutiny + Retribution Brass-Lunged Bush, 1 of 2

Happy Birthday, @bowiecadmium!

[testudo-aubreyad]

Domestic Horatio & Archie GIF set

because look at them 😭

[thekitofit]

• Lt. Bush •

[ reblog please instead of only liking and save an artist's life ✨ commissions open ✨ ko-fi ]

[quatregats]

Girl help I can't stop thinking about them

[hms-lurking-latinist]

Are there any good Lieutenant Hornblower/Mutiny/Retribution fics out there focusing on the non-officers of the Renown? We see a couple of them (I am on record as being fascinated by Hobbs), but there’s a whole ship’s company and they must all have opinions. There seems to be a captain’s party and a lieutenants’ party among them and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s others who don’t care but just think discord among the officers gets us all killed (or is an opportunity…). In the film Matthews says, iirc, that a third of the men would follow the lieutenants (or was it two-thirds, I don’t remember the proportion) - I want to see him sounding them out! The captain will have had a steward - how does he feel about it? Heck I’d even settle for the other midshipmen, I’m almost certain they’d never have just Wellard on a ship that size. I’m not well-researched enough to do any of this justice myself but I bet someone out there has been.

[silverfoxstole]

Mr Bush behind the scenes: Mutiny and Retribution (Part I).

[aye-aye-captain]

Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower | Hornblower (Mutiny) | 1/?

[spockvarietyhour]

[lurking-latinist]

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[sanguinarysanguinity]

Hornblower's "Mutiny" and the 1797 Mutiny of the HMS Hermione

I've been reading Amy Miller's Dressed to Kill (about the evolution of uniforms in the Royal Navy, and how they reflect larger trends in British society, excellent book, highly recommended), and there was mention of the 1797 mutiny of the Hermione. Miller quotes Nicholas Rodger in Command of the Ocean, who says:

In the final incident which triggered the mutiny, he [Captain Hugh Pigot] threatened to flog the last men down from aloft. They would necessarily be the yard-arm men, the most skilful topmen, with the dangerous and critical job of passing the reef-earrings. Pigot was punishing men for being the best, and when three men fell to their deaths in their haste to get down, he called to 'throw the lubbers overboard'. It was the worst insult in the seamen's vocabulary, and this final degradation drove the men mad. They seized the ship and murdered most of the officers.

Which is clearly the historical antecedent for the almost-identical incident in "Mutiny" in the Hornblower TV show! (Although with somewhat different results!)

Always interesting to discover the historical antecedent of a bit of historical fiction...

[cosmic1oves]

mutiny is great bc horatio (+bush and buckland too) spends most of it in a state of inner turmoil about Duty; his duty to the captain vs the fact it’s increasingly clear he’s unfit, and duty to the ship + fleet + navy. and the fact that doing something would be mutiny, likely leading to hornblower’s death vs not doing something will probably cause everyone’s death

meanwhile from about 5 minutes in archie is like ‘this guy is crazy and we need to do something about it.’ and then he takes another five minutes to get to ‘horatio let’s get rid of this guy. we need to get rid of sawyer guys’

[macaron-n-cheese]

Buckland being forced to take on the role of captain and being overwhelmed by everything so that he can't make any decisions