Author : LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Publisher : READ BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 9781443770163
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Naval Militia Cruises 1914 by : LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Download or read book Naval Militia Cruises 1914 written by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC and published by READ BOOKS. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. It was 6 A.M. the boat was returning from the early morning beef trip, and the midshipman in charge of her had seen fit to discuss with his coxswain the subject which at most hours, and particularly at this one, lay nearest to his heart - the subject of Food. Proper New Navy, repeated the petty officer with contempt. He referred to the recent introduction of marmalade into his scale of rations. He spoke bitterly, yet his quarrel was not with the mar- malade, which, in its way, was all hat marmalade should have been. His regret was for the dear dead days before marmalade was thought of on the LoGerdeck. That tvas ten years ago, but, fondness for the ancient order of things is still a feature of this Navy of ours. There was never a ship like our last ship no commission like the one before this one. Gipsies all yet we would fain linger a little by the ashes of our camp-fire .while the caravans move on. The most indifferent observer of naval affairs during the last decade will admit that it has heer one of immense transition. Changes, more momentous even than this business of the marmalade, have followed in the wake of a great wave of progress, Up and onward is the accepted order, but at the bottom of the Sailor-mans conservative heart a certain reluctance still remains. The talk of amoking-room and forecastle concerns the doings of yesterday the ties that link us in a common brotlerhood were for the most part forged in the Old Navy, so fast yielding place to new. In Naval . Occasions the Author hae strung together a few sketches of naval Preface. ix Iife afloat in the past ten years...