Midshipman Bolitho: Richard Bolitho - Midshipman, Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger and Band of Brothers

Richard Bolitho -- MidshipmanOctober 1772, Portsmouth. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman to King's officer, tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity.