Which serves a Navy better? Tradition and hierarchy, or innovation and merit?
It is 1775 and the American Revolution has begun. In England, the Royal Navy has one eye on the rebellious colonials and the other on its traditional enemy, the French. Two teenagers, Jaco Jacinto from Charleston, SC and Darren Smythe from Gosport, England, become midshipmen in their respective navies. Jacinto wants to help his countrymen, win their freedom. Smythe has wanted to be a naval officer since he was a boy. From blockaded harbors and the cold northern waters off Nova Scotia and Scotland, to the islands of the Bahamas and Nassau, they serve with great leaders and bad ones through battles, politics and the school of naval hard knocks. Jacinto and Smythe are mortal enemies, but when they meet, they become friends, even though they know they will be, called again to battle one another.
