Commodore Horatio Hornblower (Michael Redgrave)

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The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower · Horatio Hornblower - Delaying The French · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

While we talk, the Frenchmen move ever closer and closer.

Well, in this instance, gentlemen, a camel is a naval term.

Mr. Mann, will you introduce these gentlemen to the meaning of the word camel?

Yes, sir.

A camel is a method of reducing the draft of a ship.

What kind of camel?

As the Commodore has already pointed out, the water in the river is very shallow.

Too shallow for our bomb catches to come within range of the enemy.

I've been told this over and over.

I know the seed, Mr. Mann.

Sir, if two loaded vessels are lashed tightly, one on each side of the bomb-catch, and are then emptied of their loads, it will lighten all three and raise them farther out of the water.

Raise them farther out of the water?

I do not yet comprehend.

General, you have some barges in Riga.

Yes.

Barges draw no more than a couple of feet of water when empty.

We will load them with sand, then empty out the sand.

The bomb-catch could be lifted clean out of the water.

And yet we get close enough to bring the guns to bear.

Exactly, General.

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