Midshipman Bolitho: "Richard Bolitho Midshipman" and "Midshipman Bolitho and the "Avenger"" by Alexander Kent
Two novels in one volume: the first, Richard Bolitho - Midshipman begins in Portsmouth in October 1772, where young Richard Bolitho is waiting to join the Gorgon; the second, Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger', finds Bolitho aboard his brother's cutter at Falmouth in the winter of 1773.