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Title: My Life at Sea

Author: William Caius Crutchley

Release date: March 25, 2015 [eBook #48582]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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MY LIFE AT SEA

Frontispiece

CAPE HORN, DISTANT ONE MILE

(From a photograph taken from the “Ruapehu”)

MY LIFE AT SEA

BEING A “YARN” LOOSELY SPUN FOR THE PURPOSE
OF HOLDING TOGETHER CERTAIN REMINISCENCES
OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM SAIL TO
STEAM IN THE BRITISH MERCANTILE
MARINE (1863–1894)

BY
COMMANDER W. CAIUS CRUTCHLEY
R.D., R.N.R., F.R.G.S.
A YOUNGER BROTHER OF TRINITY HOUSE, LATE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY LEAGUE

WITH A PREFACE BY
EARL BRASSEY, G.C.B.

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL, Ltd.
1912

Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO
EARL BRASSEY, G.C.B.,
LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS;
ALSO
A MASTER MARINER AND CIRCUMNAVIGATOR.