Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I
1894-5
Haslar Hospital—H.M.S. Vernon—H.M.S. Raven— Channel Islands—Fishery Protection Duties—The Carpenter and the Grindstone—The Missing Haystack—Obsolete Gunnery .

CHAPTER II
1895-6
H.M.S. Immortalité—Sir Edward Chichester—The China Station — H.M.S. Centurion — Nagasaki — Hakodate — Chemulpo — Seoul — The Consulate General—PoliticalCrisis—Russian Asiatic Squadron —The Mexican Zarazoga—Rear Admiral Oxley .

CHAPTER III
1896-8
P. W. Rimington—The Crocodile Trees—ChefooWusung—Yokohama — Manslaughter Trial — Port Arthur—Lunch at Chinese Naval Club—Chinese Field-Artillery—A Russian Breakfast—Ting HaiFootball—The Super Taotai—Piracy

CHAPTER IV
1898
Reinforcements for all Fleets—Seizure of Kiaochow —Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei—Dewey—Spanish American War—Manila—Battle of Manila Bay— Ode to Victory — German Effrontery — Captain Chichester Intervenes

CHAPTER V
1898-9
Manila — Desperate Condition of City — Spanish Troops—Dominican Monastery—Spanish Surgeon
—British Jute Ships—Spanish Priests—Fall of Manila—Relieved by Powerful—Hong KongSkittles—The Skipper's Whist—Fashoda Scare— Ordered Home — Labuan — Singapore — Plymouth
—Pay Off.

CHAPTER VI
899-1900
Manoeuvres in Apollo—The Boer War—Ordered to the Cape—Sir Edward Chichester—Chief Transport Officer—The Manila Lady—Restlessness in Cape Squadron—The Black Week—Wounded from Graspan — A Wounded Marine — Appointed to Grant's Naval Brigade—Inspected by Lord Roberts —Port Elizabeth—Modder River—Chased by C.I.V. Sentry

CHAPTER VII
1900
The Great Advance—Invade Orange Free State— Ram Dam—Horses Brought by Ashton—De Wet Captures Main Supply Column—Jacobsdal—Night Marches—Oxen Exhausted—The Four VulturesPaardeberg—Open Fire—Scarcity of Food and Fodder—Thunderstorms—Our First Pom-PomSurrender of Cronje—The Laager—Capture Seven Ladies—Tend Boer Wounded—Looting

CHAPTER VIII
1900
Poplar Grove—Mr. Ball and Mr. Cannon—An Unlucky Shot—Lord Roberts and Kitchener Direct a Full-dress Battle—Marching—Sufferings of Troops and Animals—Bloemfontein—Inspected by Lord Roberts—Cricket Match—The Club—EntericThe Convent—My Lost Pyjamas—A Stern Army Reserve Sister—Rejoin Guns—Thaba Nju—Recalled to Simon's Town—Doris—A very Secret Expedition—Return to England—Mafeking Heroines—Roger Casement

CHAPTER IX
1900-1902
Pembroke Dockyard—Yachting—The Dockyard " Crawl "— The Huguenots — Planchette — Join Ariadne for West Indies—Strenuous Times—A Worried Governor—Bar Harbour—Halifax—Bermuda—Quebec—American Trippers—The C.-in-C. and the Bagman

CHAPTER X
1902-1903
Venezuelan Revolution—Castro—Capture of His Fleet—Blockade—Dash up the Orinoco in a Destroyer—Revolutionary Commandant—Castilia —Alligators—A Biblical Picture—Christmas Dinner —Puerto Cabello—de Lamos, the Puma—West Indian Cruise—St. Pierre—Havana—U.S. Maine —Leonard Wood—Trinidad—A Nigger Policeman —The " tertium quid "

CHAPTER XI
1903-1905
Changes in the Navy—Reduction of the Station— Russo-Japanese War — La Quaira — A Grand Ball—An Interrupted Flirtation—The Shah and the Huascar—The Poodle and the Hen—Messmates —Gunnery—Accompany the " Codbangers " to Newfoundland—Wedged in an Iceflow—Thirty Starving Housemaids—Return to England—Rejoin Ariadne—The Russian Baltic Fleet—Pay Off Ariadne

CHAPTER XII
1905-1907
H.M.S. Europa—Write a Boys' Book—The A.P. and the Jew—The Trials of Achilles—An Inquest— Join H.M.S. Albion—Gibraltar—Captain Pakenham and the Japs—" Black Birding "—The Atlantic Squadron—Evolutions—Irish Cruise—Manceuvres —Curzon-Howe—Battle Practice off Tetuan.

CHAPTER XIII
1908
Assassination of King of Portugal—Lagos—Gibraltar — Austrian Squadron — Rhonda — Ceuta — A Russian Squadron—The Cesarevitch—" For Remembrance "—A Russian Commander—Our Three Captains — An S.M.O. for the First Time— Reflections .

CHAPTER XIV
1909-1913
Fleet Reviews — Chatham Hospital — The Anti- matrimonial Captain—Commission the Dartmouth —Nedjeb, the Turk Torpedo Lieutenant—The Wreck of the Delhi—Join H.M.S. Argyll— Medicine Ball—The Great Illusion—An Exhibition Shoot—The German Sea Menace—Join H.M.S. Princess Royal — Ventilation — Gun Mountings— Fleet War Training .

CHAPTER XV
1913-1914
Commission H.M.S. Swiftsure—East Indies StationAden—Trincomali—Sick Quarters—Port Blair— The Manipur Executioner — Aborigines — Muscat —Armed Launches—The Sultan of Muscat—Kismet—Arab Diplomacy—Cruising in the Persian Gulf —"Hawking the Great Bustard in Persia " — " The Bull Moose "—The Darya Begi—CeylonThe Great War—Admiral Jellicoe

CHAPTER XVI
1914-1915
Three Months of Convoy Work—The Defence of the Suez Canal—The Turkish Defeat—A Fusillade— Transfer to Euryalus—Bombard the Forts at Smyrna —A Torpedo Attack—The Dardanelles--General Impressions—landing the Lancashire Fusiliers— Treating Wounded—Spend the Night in the River Clyde—Assault on Sedd-el-Bahr—Operating on Board Braemar Castle—Submarines Appear—Sauve qui peut .

CHAPTER XVII
1915-1916
Transferred Back to Swiftsure—Suvla Bay—Reflections—" Hero " of a " Tactical idea "—Casualties on Board—" To Annoy Fatima "—The Battle of 21st August — The Scottish Horse — Flies and Dysentery—Stalemate—A Blizzard—Evacuation of Peninsula—Bombardment of the Three Railway Trucks—The Goeben and Breslau—Sudden Orders —Gibraltar — The Cork Woods — Cape Verde Islands—England

CHAPTER XVIII
1916-1918
The Naval Disaster—Reflections—Naval Education— Appointed Naval Barracks—Conscientious Objectors —Appointed to Hospital Ship, Soudan—A V anguard Survivor—Scapa Flow—The Last German Submarine to be Destroyed—Reflections on Life in the Grand Fleet—Surrender of the German High Sea Fleet—Pay Off Soudan

CHAPTER XIX
1919-1926
Royal Naval Hospital, Cape of Good Hope—The Cap Polonio — The " Springboks " — The Boer Generals and the Bootlaces—My First Bet—A Bush Fire—The Lonely Lobster—My Guinea-pig Hutch—Promoted—Home Round the East CoastMozambique—Three Portuguese Deserters — My one Shark Story—R.N. Hospital, Plymouth—Reach the Age of Retirement—Reflections .