Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable is a history book by Heather Noel-Smith & Lorna M. Campbell The book describes the lives of 17 real midshipmen who served under Captain Edward Pellew on HMS Indefatigable, and how much they learned from him and how his friendship benefited their future careers. Hornblower could have been one of them