Seven Gun Broadside

William Wooldrige, lieutenant in King George's Navy during the wars against Spain and France, was facing a court martial for the loss of his sloop, Fox. He expected to lose his commission but he did not mind. For he thought his destiny in life was to be a poet, to rival the great William Wordsworth. That was his first misjudgement. The second was that there would be no time for women in his life...