\"My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we\"d saved. And now here I am, training to be a midwife, so that next time I can make it better.\" Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world....

1789: NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain\"s infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty\"s ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England....

1794: as the year draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again, but her company is mostly raw and untrained....

1784: at a time when most of the fleet is laid up, His Majesty\"s frigate Undine weighs anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to India and far beyond. As her new captain, Richard Bolitho is glad to go, despite the nature of his orders and the immensity of the voyage - for he is leaving an England still suffering from the aftermath of war....

1782: British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against the combined fleets of France and Spain and the upstart American privateers....

1774: Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from midshipman\"s berth to wardroom - and, at a time when most of the fleet is laid up, Bolitho is considered fortunate....

1777: the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war. The navy\"s main task is to prevent military supplies from reaching Washington\"s armies and to destroy the fast-growing fleet of French and American privateers....

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