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The narrative follows a young officer who arrives at a naval world and confronts the gap between romantic expectations of life at sea and the harsh, mechanical discipline he encounters aboard ship. Through everyday routines, drills, and private moments, it charts his uneasy initiation into an institution that prizes efficiency over personal feeling. Interwoven episodes consider friendships, restraint, and the moral cost of conforming to an uncompromising system. Later sections broaden to include crises that test loyalties and the ways private desires become entangled with public duty.

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Title: The Gunroom

Author: Charles Morgan

Release date: July 17, 2016 [eBook #52591]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUNROOM ***

THE IMMORTAL GAMBLE

AND THE PART PLAYED IN IT BY H.M.S. “CORNWALLIS”

By A. T. STEWART, Acting-Commander, R.N.
AND THE
Rev. C. J. E. PESHALL, Chaplain, R.N.

Post 8vo. Containing 32 page Illustrations from photographs, and a Map

Price 6/- net. (Post free 6/5)


This book, written by two officers of the battleship from whose fore-turret was fired the first shot of the bombardment, gives an account of happenings of vital interest and importance. It is absorbing because the truth shines out everywhere, and you feel that for once you are really getting first-hand information as to what did happen. It bridges the gap between February 19th and April 25th (the date of the Great Landing), and of this period we have hitherto heard hardly anything. Besides the valuable nature of the material, this chronicle of great events is written with considerable literary skill. The authors have succeeded in making their “log” intimate. It is before all things a man’s book, and unless the publishers are much mistaken, this originally conceived Saga of the Straits will attract attention everywhere.

PUBLISHED BY
A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4, 5 AND 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1

THE GUNROOM

BY
CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN

“We are carried so far out to sea that we lose sight of the quiet haven whence we set forth.”
Dialogus beati Gregorii Papæ ejusque diaconi Petri,
translation 1608 and Robert Bridges.

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1
1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.THE SHORE RECEDES1
II.SEEN THROUGH STEEL25
III.A CHAPTER WITHOUT NAME36
IV.WAR, CARPETS, AND CANDLES62
V.TWO WORLDS85
VI.STRAIN AND RELIEF101
VII.MARGARET113
VIII.THE NET143
IX.QUARTERED ON THE KINGDOM149
X.EASTERN SEAS162
XI.AWAY FROM THE SHIP169
XII.THE CAPTAIN IN CONFIDENCE177
XIII.LOOKING BEYOND196
XIV.WASTE AND WONDER212
XV.TRAFALGAR AND THE RED LAMP227
XVI.THE ENGINES236
XVII.DECISION263
XVIII.IN THE CROSS-PASSAGE276
XIX.CRISIS287
XX.WINGFIELD ALTER305
XXI.THE CURRENCY311
XXII.MARGARET IN THE NET320
XXIII.AN INSTANT FREE334
XXIV.ONE YEAR LATER: THE WORLD IN THE NET347