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Author | : D. A. B. Ronald |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-03-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1780965869 |
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This book takes us into the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the boy sailors of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting and dying for their country across the oceans of the world. They 'fought like young Nelsons.' The words of a schoolmaster, writing from aboard the Mars after the battle of Trafalgar, describing the valour of his pupils in the heat of battle. Made immortal by the novels of Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester and Alexander Kent, these boy sailors, alongside those of every other Royal Navy ship, had entered the British Navy to fight the French across every ocean of the world. There was a long-standing British tradition of children going to sea, and along the way found adventure, glory, wealth and fame. During the Napoleonic Wars, these children, some as young as eight or nine, were also fighting for the very survival of Britain. Drawing on many first-hand accounts, letters, poems and writings, this book tells the dramatic story of Britain's boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars for the very first time.
Author | : David Phillipson |
Publisher | : History Press (SC) |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780750931816 |
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Band of Brothers is a history of the boy seaman rating in the Royal Navy, beginning with its evolution from the eighteenth century 'Officer's Servant' through to its abolition in 1956. It tells of an astonishing Victorian Naval tradition which continued right into the modern age. HMS Ganges, a byword on the lower deck of the Royal Navy for strict discipline, was the hardest of the boy seaman training establishments, and was widely regarded as the archetype. The Royal Navy throughout those years was a supremely conservative and traditionalist institution, and particularly in its attitude to and treatment of lower deck people, the boys in particular. Drawing on his own detailed diaries, the author vividly recreates daily life ashore and afloat, in peace and war. Recruitment, food and clothing, training, discipline and punishment are all recorded, and supported by the personal accounts of boy seamen who went on to serve in the Royal Navy as men.
Author | : Gundry Grenville-Hearne |
Publisher | : Ganymede Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781589636668 |
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(The ship that Never Sailed)These great and beautiful ships, Imperceptible poised (swayed) on Calm waters; these stout ships, With their out-of-work, homesick air- Are they not saying to us in dumb show: How soon shall we set sail towards happiness? When Charles Baudelaire wrote this, he epitomised the very core of human desire.Life for so many of us is like a ship that remains permanently moored in the port of uncongenial environment. We may be first-class passengers who can afford to pay others to work for us; or we may be in the second-class; or merely the majority who exist in the discomfort of the steerage--but this much is certain; we are all longing to know ?How soon shall we set sail towards happiness ?? In this story of tomorrow's manhood, you will see this universal longing faithfully mirrored in a succession of Life Stages ...
Author | : Francis Browning D. Bickerstaffe- Drew (count.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Download Dominus vobiscum: or, The sailor boy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Charles Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Florida |
ISBN | : |
Download A Sailor Boy's Experience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Oliver Optic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : United States |
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Download The Sailor Boy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sailor Boy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1875 |
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Download A Sailor Boy's Adventures in the Land of the Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen F. Blanding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Louisiana (U.S. Gunboat) |
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Download Recollections of a Sailor Boy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shipwrecked sailor-boy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The shipwrecked sailor-boy; or, An orphan's troubles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Taylor Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Download The Sailor Boy; Or, Jack Somers in the Navy ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle