The Story of the "Britannia" / The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.

by Edward Phillips Statham

THE STORY OF
THE “BRITANNIA”
THE TRAINING SHIP
FOR NAVAL CADETS
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF PREVIOUS
METHODS OF NAVAL EDUCATION,
AND OF THE NEW SCHEME OF 1903

BY
COMMANDER E. P. STATHAM, R.N.

CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MCMIV

THE “BRITANNIA” APPROACHING PORTLAND, FEB. 7TH, 1862.

PREFACE.

THE principal object of the preface in a volume of this nature is to acknowledge the assistance received from various persons; the title speaks for itself, and but little is necessary by way of introduction.