Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Horatio Hornblower: The Complete Adventures (Disc 2 of 6) - The Fire Ships (2000) Rating: Starring: Ioan Gruffudd Director: Andrew Grieve Category: Action/Adventure, Family, Television Studio: A&E Subtitles: [None] Length: 600 mins     In the dark days of theiNapoleonic War: Horatio Hornblower and the crew of the Indefatigable are put on half rations. But Hornblower is distracted from his hunger by the prospect of a commission, for Captain Pellew (Robert Lindsay) has nominated the young sailor for the lieutenant's exams. The Indefatigable sails to the African Coast to buy provisions. While ashore, Hornblower and his men are exposed to the Black Plague. He proposes that a they serve their three-week quarantine by sailing another ship back to Gibraltar to rendezvous with the fleet. The mission proves that the real test of a sailor's worth comes at sea, not in the examination hall.