That would be Capt. Horatio Hornblower's manservant dishing up breakfast on board the frigate Lydia in June 1808. ... Flying Colours (collected in the omnibus volume Captain Horatio Hornblower).

T he action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. ... Flying Colours; Commodore Hornblower; “Hornblower and His Majesty”; Lord ...