Harry Flashman, a creation of the late George MacDonald Fraser, is a popular fictional character. In the first book of a proposed new series Robert Brightwell introduces us to his uncle, Thomas Flashman whose career covers the Napoleonic and Georgian era.
Whether the whole series will be nautical remains to be seen, but the first book, Flashman and the Seawolf, finds him aboard ship in the Mediterranean with Thomas Cochrane.
Flashman and the Seawolf is available in Paperback and for Kindle.