Frank Brown, Sea Apprentice

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Frank Brown, by Frank Thomas Bullen, Illustrated by Arthur Twidle
Frank flung all his weight on the lee side of the wheel.
FRANK BROWN SEA APPRENTICE
BY FRANK T. BULLEN, F.R.G.S. AUTHOR OF “THE CRUISE OF THE ‘CACHALOT’” “A SON OF THE SEA,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR TWIDLE
NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY 31 West Twenty-third Street 1907
TO MY DEARLY LOVED FRIEND The Rev. GUSTAVUS BOSANQUET THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

In order to make it plain to my readers that the following pages may be read without danger of acquiring false information about the sea, or the ways of its servants, I beg to say that every incident recorded is fact, either well authenticated by others, or personal experience of my own. About the merits of the story I can, of course, say nothing, but I assure my readers of the accuracy of the details and information herein contained. I have naturally used the incidents to make a story, and given fictitious names of ships, places, and people. And I am not without hope that the reading of this book may be quite profitable to parents of boys wishing to go to sea, as well as pleasurable to the boys themselves.
FRANK T. BULLEN.
R.M.S. Omrah , At Sea in the Great Australian Bight, Easter Sunday 1906.