so do I Little Hawk, my great grandfather served on the Endymion, as well as the paddle sloop Spiteful, among others and it always conjures up Horatio Hornblower images in my mind. Although his service was, I think, more pestilance ridden and less romantic. The Spiteful spent time on the Congo River where you were 10 times more likely to die of malaria than by the hand of a pirate or a slave trader.