The Mid of the Maintop

Sailing from ports in East Africa Arab slave dhows are transporting African slaves to markets in Arabia. But the British Royal Navy is at hand! The frigate HMS Forte is sailing through these perilous waters on the look-out for slave dhows with their wretched human cargo. Yet things seldom go as planned and the wheel of fortune keeps turning without mercy. Midshipman Jack Villiers has just finished a routine duty when fate's icy hand grasps him. Will he survive his ordeal - or go to Davy Jones Locker like so many others before him?