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Author |
: W. H. Blake |
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Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433008440632 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventures of a Naval Chief Gunner by : W. H. Blake
Author |
: W H Blake |
Publisher |
: Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2013-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1230467343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781230467344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventures of a Naval Chief Gunner by : W H Blake
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the adventures of A naval chief gunner. chapter I. I begin my career by running away from home--I join the Royal Navy--I go round the world in the first Flying Squadron, Admiral Hornby in command. S was born an Irishman, but owing to my many and %lr(v varius adventures I became a citizen of the j-lr world when quite a lad, in the year 1867. In-Hgjthat year I ran away from home, and joined Cwh.m. ship "Ganges." On being taken on board by a coastguard man from Falmouth, I passed the doctor, was measured, and being about one inch too short, I stood on my toes to make the inch up, a thing that was winked at in those days. I was then sent with a crowd of news boys who had arrived from Ireland, London, and Scotland. A queer assortment they were; some had been trapped by all sorts of lies by the recruiting people, some expected to start with big wages, and, in fact, one who had joined as a second-class boy was a married man with two children. We were sent to the pump to fill the baths, and after that we were taken in hand by the barber, who left our heads very much like billiard balls. Then we were taken in hand by the ship's steward, who issued to every boy a free kit, bed, and blanket. My number was 935, which meant that I was the 935th boy that had joined H.M. ship "Ganges" since her arrival in Falmouth Harbour. After being clothed we were marched up for our first meal in the Royal Navy, and we then began to feel that we had commenced life in real earnest. Being a new boy, I was placed at the foot of the table, and was helped by the boy-caterer of the mess with a very small piece of lean meat, a few beans, and a basin of what I thought was hot water. This kind of feeding, with alternate days of salt beef and salt pork, was all we received in...
Author |
: Henry Taprell Dorling |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2022-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547111146 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scarlet Stripe--being the adventures of a naval surgeon by : Henry Taprell Dorling
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Scarlet Stripe--being the adventures of a naval surgeon" by Henry Taprell Dorling. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author |
: Leonard George Carr Laughton |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015081883665 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mariner's Mirror by : Leonard George Carr Laughton
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 686 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059171109503221 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Author |
: Richard Henry Gibson |
Publisher |
: London, W. Heinemann [1918] |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B42389 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Years of Naval Warfare by : Richard Henry Gibson
Author |
: Captain Eugene Ray Martin |
Publisher |
: Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2020-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781640278776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 164027877X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis UNITED STATES SHIP TEXAS THE ELDORADO ADVENTURE by : Captain Eugene Ray Martin
President Roosevelt in 1941 sent the twenty-seven-year-old battleship Texas and her mini task force on an important mission to an American territory. Not to protect that territory, but to salvage their wealth before the Japanese can obtain that wealth and use it to build more weapons of war. Their primary goal was to avoid frightening or threating the Japanese, thus giving the Japanese an excuse to start a war. At that time the Japanese were rattling their sabers. The Americans
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 988 |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112119813324 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Naval Training Bulletin by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015084396269 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Author |
: Bret Harte |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 676 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015074653497 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine by : Bret Harte