Where did Hornblower Cruises get its name?
Hornblower is taken from the best-known character in nautical fiction, Horatio Hornblower. C.S. Forester's books are based on Horation Hornblower and the protagonist is not built of the same cardboard as many naval heroes of earlier adventure novels. He is a fully rounded person with the same fears, doubts, passions, and yearnings as any man. Hornblower's briny adventures and his breathtaking battles against Bonaparte's navy are the memorable sagas to which the works of Kent, Pope, and O'Brian are inevitably compared.