Sea life in Nelson's time

by John Masefield

SEA LIFE IN NELSON’S TIME

A FRIGATE UNDER SAIL

SEA LIFE
IN NELSON’S TIME

BY

JOHN MASEFIELD

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1905

TO

CAPTAIN HENRY BAYNHAM, R.N.

I thank Mr W. Barclay Squire and Mr F. Kidson, for their versions of the tune, “Drops of Brandy”; and Mr Martin Shaw for permission to use his arrangement of the tune of “Spanish Ladies.” I also wish to thank Mr Laurence Binyon for his help in the selection of the illustrations here reproduced.