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Midshipman Royal Navy 1853-60 Crimea Indian Mutiny autobiography

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A black cloth covered book, ends of spine rubbed and frayed, corners bumped and worn; ffep removed. Page block rough cut with pages with some fox spotting throughout although illustrations are clear but tissue guards are spotted and the frontispieces' has a blind tear. Book, although worn and well used is tight and sound - GOOD PLUS condition.
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1st. 1898 Adam & Charles Black, London

206 pages
150mm. x 205mm. x 27mm.

A previous owner has pencilled some notes refering to the fact that his father (a Captain Richard R. F. Thomas, R.N.) served as a midshipman shipmate with the author.

Click here for a review of this book from the New York Times
18 June 1898

Contents

CHAPTER I.
   ENTERING THE NAVY
CHAPTER II.
   THE "PRINCESS ROYAL"
CHAPTER III.
   WAR WITH RUSSIA DECLARED
CHAPTER IV.
   THE CRIMEA
CHAPTER V.
   PUNISHMENTS IN THE NAVY
CHAPTER VI.
   RUSSIA COLLAPSES
CHAPTER VII.
   LEISURE HOURS
CHAPTER VIII.
   SOME DISTINGUISHED SAILORS
CHAPTER IX.
   PLAY ON BOARD; AND SOME DUTIES
CHAPTER X.
   PIRATE-HUNTING; AND A DINNER PARTY
CHAPTER XI.
   WAR WITH CHINA DECLARED
CHAPTER XII.
   THE " RALEIGH " WRECKED
CHAPTER XIII.
   AT WAR IN CHINA
CHAPTER XIV.
   MORE PIRATE HUNTING
CHAPTER XV.
   THE INDIAN MUTINY
CHAPTER XVI.
   THE NAVAL BRIGADE AT WORK
CHAPTER XVII.
   INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XVIII.
   A TOUCH-AND-GO ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER XIX.
   COMPLIMENTS TO THE NAVAL BRIGADE
CHAPTER XX.
   HOME AGAIN

Illustrations

  • The author as a Midshipman in 1856. From an oil painting
  • The author as a Naval Cadet, 1853. From a miniature
  • H.M.S. "Princess Royal," of 91 guns, 1853 The signal flying for war, and Fleet cheering
  • H.M.S. "Raleigh," 50-gun sailing frigate, wrecked off Macao (China), the 14th April 1857
  • The battle of Fatshan, showing the sinking of Commodore The Honourable Henry Keppel's galley, 1st June 1857
  • H.M.S. " Pearl," a 1-gun corvette .
  • The author at the present day
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This is the author as a cadet in 1853. This image is taken from the book.This is the author as a midshipman in 1856, taken from the book !