Portrait of the author when he entered the service in 1860

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
CAPTAIN ALBERT A. WONHAM, R.N.

Portrait of the author in 1917 still serving as a captain

SPUN YARNS OF A NAVAL OFFICER

ALBERT R. WONHAM

CAPTAIN, ROYAL NAVY; FREEMAN OF THE CITY OF LONDON

A navy cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine and a blind decoration to front board. Bottom and top of spine shelf worn and torn and lettering faded. Owners sig.on fpd. Page block has some spotting throughout and is a little shakey - corners bumped - condition Good.
265 pages 150 mm. x 217 mm. x 37 mm. Published 1917 by P. S. King & Son, Ltd., London.

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I. ENTERING THE NAVY
II. H.M.S. EURYALUS
III. H.M.S. LEVEN
IV. H.M.S. GLADIATOR.
V. H.M.S. THETIS
VI. H.M.S. BARRACOUTA
VII. H.M.S. SPRIGHTLY.
VIII. H.M.S. DEVASTATION
IX. H.M.S. MONARCH
X. H.M.S. SULTAN
XI. H.M.S. LIFFEY
XII. H.M.S. WILDFIRE
XIII. CHATHAM DOCKYARD
XIV. VARIOUS SERVICES
XV SALVAGE WORK

List of illustrations

ADMIRAL SIR JOHN R. JELLICOE
THE AUTHOR .
ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD N. CUSTANCE
ADMIRAL SIR E. R. FREMANTLE
ADMIRAL ANGUS MACLEOD
ADMIRAL LORD CHARLES BERESFORD
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, HON. SIR HEDWORTH MEUX .
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, SIR CHARLES F. HOTHAM .
ADMIRAL SIR H. F. STEPHENSON
H.M.S. DEVASTATION AND H.M.S. WILDFIRE
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, LORD WALTER T. KERR

Note

The author entered the RN in 1860 and first served in the 6 gun paddle sloop HMS Geyser before being posted too the Chaina Station where he served in Eurayus. He next served in HMS Leven, then the Gladiator on the American Station. HMS Liffey during a revolution in Chile (1891) etc., etc. In 1897 he resigned his commission and became a Nautical Assessor in the Court of Appeal.

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