From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

PREFACE

When I was a boy, some years before I obtained my appointment in the navy, I spent many of those happy hours that only childhood knows poring over the back numbers of a British service periodical, which began its career in 1828, with the title _Colburn's United Service Magazine_; under which name, save and except the Colburn, it still survives. Besides weightier matters...