HMS Expedient Thomson Gale The Grandparent

The Grandparent

And where do two fugitive Jesuit priests fit into the puzzle

Enter the historical world of THE PALE HORSEMAN

aboard a Naval gunship

HMS Expedient Thomson Gale The Grandparent1786: Captain William Rennie is on the beach and on half pay when he's given a prime commission: HMS Expedient is a 36 gun frigate; she is to be sent to the South Seas on a scientific expedition. For Lieutenant James Hayter, in Dorsetshire, whose career had barely begun when the peace came, his own commission in Expedient out of the blue is equally surprising and exciting. But for these two sea officers there is something odd and disturbing about the