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A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 2 (of 3)

Chapter 40: Transcriber’s Notes
By Sir Henry Keppel
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A senior naval officer continues his memoir, narrating shipboard life and command across distant stations. The volume recounts anti-piracy expeditions in eastern archipelago waters, cruises and port visits in Hong Kong, Australia, and the Americas, technical study of steam power, and routine shore periods. It also describes participation in mid-century military operations, including actions in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Crimean theatre, with accounts of bombardments, landings, trench warfare, and naval brigades. Interwoven are practical details of ship handling, gunnery, small-boat operations, and interactions with local allies and communities.

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Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Images relocated close to related content.
  • Sidenotes relocated close to related content.
  • The original has a sidenote at the start of every page to indicate the current year and sometimes a reminder of the current location. Where the year and location are clear from the text and previous sidenotes, these page-top notes have been omitted.
  • Footnotes have been renumbered consecutively and relocated to the end of the text.
  • Punctuation and other obvious typographic inaccuracies were silently corrected.
  • Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
  • Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
  • The index that appears in volume III has been replicated into volumes I and II. Only those page numbers pertaining to this volume have been linked.