A note from Ira Riklis: “Attached are two photos of a model I had made of the Lydia, the ship from the beginning sequences of the movie Captain Horatio Hornblower. It is the ship commanded by Captain Hornblower in the book Beat To Quarters, the seventh book in the series from a logical point of view. Actually this was the very first book written in what would become the Hornblower series. It was published in 1937 in England under the title The Happy Return. When printed later that same year in the U.S., the title was changed to Beat To Quarters.”

A model of The Lydia, commissioned by Ira Riklis