Produced by Suzanne Shell, William Flis, Jerry Fairbanks, Mary Musser,

Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

THE GENTLEMAN A ROMANCE OF THE SEA

BY ALFRED OLLIVANT

AUTHOR OF "BOB, SON OF BATTLE" AND "REDBOAT CAPTAIN"

1908

TO THE NAVY

CONTENTS

JULY 1805

BOOK I THE LITTLE TREMENDOUS