Damaged Lydia Heads For Panama (06)
Broadcast: 11th August 1952
Added: Jun 19 2008
In all Hornblower’s years at sea both before and since that memorable time he does not remember being so utterly weary as he was after the Natividad plunged burning under the surface of the deep Pacific. But his own ship, Lydia was not without damage herself and thirty-eight of his men had been killed.