The Thirteen-gun Salute
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: July 10, 1997
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780006499282
First sentence: In spite of the hurry, many wives and many sweethearts had come to see the ship off, and those members of her company who were not taken up with sailing her on her difficult course close-hauled to the brisk south-east breeze, watched the white flutter of their handkerchiefs far across the water until Black Point hid them entirely, shut them right out.