Clear for Action

Clear for Action continues the extraordinary true story of the naval career of the Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars.
Clear for Action covers Westropp’s adventures from Ireland to Denmark, France, the South Atlantic, the West Indies and West Africa. Prize money was the only way a sea officer could acquire wealth and his many captures of enemy ships certainly ensured that.
All the events portrayed in the novel took place and the ships and naval officers mentioned are real, including his meetings with the Duke of Wellington and the Emperor Napoleon.