Factual error: When the Spanish sink the topsail schooner bringing supplies to Gibraltar, Captain Foster swims to a floating fighting top. The schooner actually had nothing more elaborate than a crosstrees on both masts.
Hornblower: The Fire Ship (1998)
1 mistake
Directed by: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Ian McNeice, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson
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