THE BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN.
The mutiny at Spithead found the British ministry intent upon blocking up the Dutch fleet…
THE BATTLE OF BEACHY HEAD.
There was little to record to the honour of the navy in the reign of…
OFF GIBRALTAR.
It is not to be supposed that our enemies quietly accepted the conquest of Gibraltar…
OFF CAPE FINISTERRE.
Towards the end of the year 1746 the French ministry came to a determination to…
IN INDIAN SEAS.
1758-9. Though the great achievements of large fleets are apt to monopolise fame, it often…
VANDERDECKEN’S MESSAGE HOME;
OR, THE TENACITY OF NATURAL AFFECTION Our ship, after touching at the Cape, went out…
THE ROCK SCORPIONS
The screw steamer Jenny Jones was lying alongside a coal-hulk at Gibraltar one October afternoon.…
“PETREL” AND “THE BLACK SWAN”
“Sail, ho!” Never, surely, did the cry fall upon more welcome ears, save and except…
ZELINDA AND THE MONSTER.
There was once a poor man who had three daughters; and as the youngest was…
The King o’ the Cats
One winter’s evening the sexton’s wife was sitting by the fireside with her big black…