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Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck / Being the Experience of Samuel Leech

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By Samuel Leech
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The narrator recounts his years at sea, serving in both British and American navies, experiencing life aboard warships, capture during combat, and subsequent service and capture again; he details daily routines on the main deck, strict discipline, harsh corporal punishment, battle scenes, imprisonment, and the physical and moral hardships endured by sailors, concluding with reflections urging better treatment and reforms.

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Title: Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck

Author: Samuel Leech

Release date: September 23, 2020 [eBook #63273]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book.

The warship USS Syren is referred to as Siren throughout the book (except for the title page); this has not been changed.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.

THE

MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

WITH

NOTES AND QUERIES

Extra Number—No. 9

COMPRISING

THIRTY YEARS FROM HOME, OR A VOICE
FROM THE MAIN DECK: BEING THE
EXPERIENCE OF SAMUEL LEECH.

WILLIAM ABBATT

EAST 25th STREET, ⁂ ⁂ NEW YORK

1909

THIS REPRESENTATION OF THE U. S. FRIGATE UNITED STATES, STEPHEN DECATUR ESQR COMMANDER, CAPTURING HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, JOHN S. CARDEN ESQ^R COMMANDER
Is respectfully inscribed to Captain Stephen Decatur his Officers and Gallant Crew by their devoted humble Servant

James Webster.

THIRTY YEARS FROM HOME
OR
A VOICE FROM THE
MAIN DECK

BEING THE EXPERIENCE OF

SAMUEL LEECH

WHO WAS FOR SIX YEARS IN THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVIES: WAS CAPTURED IN THE BRITISH FRIGATE MACEDONIAN: AFTERWARDS ENTERED THE AMERICAN NAVY, AND WAS TAKEN IN THE UNITED STATES BRIG SYREN, BY THE BRITISH SHIP MEDWAY     ::     ::     ::     ::

BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY TAPPAN & DENNET
114 Washington Street
1843

NEW YORK
Reprinted
WILLIAM ABBATT
1909

(Being Extra No. 9 of The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries)