CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction[vii]
    Prologue[1]
Boreas[3]
Conqueror[10]
Academy[15]
Panther[19]
Salisbury[41]
Orestes[56]
Edgar[64]
Barfleur[97]
Queen[121]
Berwick[126]
Gorgon[155]
Victory[172]
Hind[178]
Blonde[203]
Brunswick[226]
Transport Service[250]
Fairlight Signal Station[251]
    Appendix[265]
    Index[267]

NAVAL RECOLLECTIONS
IN SHREDS AND PATCHES
WITH STRANGE REFLECTIONS
ABOVE AND UNDER HATCHES.

I know nothing of grammar;

At school they never could hammer

Or beat it into my head.

The bare word made me stammer,

And turn pale as if I were dead.

And here I may as well be telling

I’m often damned out in my spelling.

And this is all the apology

I offer for my chronology,

And biographical sketches

Of mighty men, and lubberly wretches,

From seventeen hundred and seventy-seven—

Their rank, their titles, and their names are given.

14th June 1836.