In the name of accuracy, I must eat some of my words.
by Cassandra
Went back and watched Retribution again. (Mmmm, shirtless Lieutenant Bush.) I was wrong about the frigate - I don't know quite where I got the idea from. The Retribution that Hornblower is promoted into was - I think, not being anything of an expert on early nineteenth century seacraft - a corvette, a warship with only one tier of guns and no poop-deck. I think. Certainly not a frigate, anyway.
In any case, my point is not that your taste in television shows is bad (not being actually sure where you picked that up) or that the Hornblower series is bad. Just that, although they obviously did their homework in producing it, they didn't do it quite well enough.