Recollections of Forty Years' ServiceW. Blackwood and sons, 1903 - 386 sider |
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... passed the age for entry to the navy . I recollect being taken on board the guardship lying off Woolwich dockyard , an old 40 - gun frigate , the Fisguard . The flintlocks on the guns were the only thing I particularly remember about ...
... passed the age for entry to the navy . I recollect being taken on board the guardship lying off Woolwich dockyard , an old 40 - gun frigate , the Fisguard . The flintlocks on the guns were the only thing I particularly remember about ...
Side 13
... passed out , and on the 23rd of that month was gazetted to the Royals , now Royal Scots . At that time , my father being employed in Canada , I was under charge of my uncle , who , as already mentioned , lived in London : but he was ...
... passed out , and on the 23rd of that month was gazetted to the Royals , now Royal Scots . At that time , my father being employed in Canada , I was under charge of my uncle , who , as already mentioned , lived in London : but he was ...
Side 19
... passing through the air . To hand over the Land Transport to their own people , and get a receipt from their paymaster for the anxiously guarded sovereigns , did not take long ; and the wel- come beaming face of my brother in the 21st ...
... passing through the air . To hand over the Land Transport to their own people , and get a receipt from their paymaster for the anxiously guarded sovereigns , did not take long ; and the wel- come beaming face of my brother in the 21st ...
Side 40
... passed up the river , with red - jackets crowding the decks : the people at the different bungalows excitedly waved handkerchiefs , towels , & c . , just as the Portsmouth people had done when we returned from the Crimea the year before ...
... passed up the river , with red - jackets crowding the decks : the people at the different bungalows excitedly waved handkerchiefs , towels , & c . , just as the Portsmouth people had done when we returned from the Crimea the year before ...
Side 41
Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch. SNAKES AND ALLIGATORS . 41 had passed the low - lying entrance of the Masulipatam iver , had to turn round and steam back , losing a vhole day . A catamaran with its solitary native pit us in communication ...
Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch. SNAKES AND ALLIGATORS . 41 had passed the low - lying entrance of the Masulipatam iver , had to turn round and steam back , losing a vhole day . A catamaran with its solitary native pit us in communication ...
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