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BEFORE THE MAST
NAVAL RATINGS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
AUTHOR: Henry Baynham
PUBLISHED: Hutchinson, London. 1971
FORMAT: Hb, 224pp, illustrated, chronology, index
CONDITION: Used...ex-library stock, so expect library stamps / marks / stickers.
Dust-jacket missing.
Book - a well-thumbed copy, but basically good, sound & clean
condition
A picture of the sailor's life in the 19th-century Navy, (post Napoleonic dangers and the press-gangs) told by the seamen themselves.
First-hand descriptions of Arctic exploration, surveying and charting the world's oceans, suppressing the slave trade, supporting the land campaigns of the Crimean War, life and conditions on board a variety of vessels - and the achievements and dangers of a seaman's life are included,.
Contents
• The Old and the New.
• A Mariner of England - William Richardson.
• Arctic Exploration - John Bechervaise .
• Arctic Exploration - William Simpson.
• Arctic Exploration - Daniel Harley. .
• Surveying and Charting - Joseph Stratton.
• The Crimean War.
• Mid - Century.
• The Changing Navy.
• A Sailor of the Sixties - John Tilling. .
• A View from the Lower Deck.
• Training the Boys. .
• Sailors of the Seventies - Sam Noble.
• Sailors of the Seventies - Patrick Riley.
• Sailors of the Seventies- Thomas Holman.
• The Slave Trade.
• From Seamen to Coast Guard- Charles Humphreys.
• A Sailor of the Eighties -Michael Toman.
• List of Nautical Terms.