After his successful year on Warlord, Captain John Wharton RN is given command of Courageous, a 38-gun frigate, bound for the Mediterranean.
His ship is directed to the Adriatic to gather intelligence about the French military and naval activities in Venice which is followed by a desperate ship-to-ship action with an enemy frigate.
War breaks out with the Ottoman Empire and ‘Tiger’ Wharton sails for the east to discover the strength of the Turkish fleet and prey on their merchant ships.