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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEK I. 

 MEN-OF-WAR. 



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Our Wooden Walls The Victory Siege of Toulon Battle of St. Vincent Nelson's Bridge Trafalgar's Glorious Day 

 The Day for such Battles gone Iron v. Wood Lessons of the Crimean War Moral Effect of the Presence of our 

 Fleets Bombardment of Sebastopol Red-hot Shot and Gibraltar- The Ironclad Movement The Warrior Expe- 

 riences with Ironclads The Mcrrimac in Hampton Roads A Speedily-decided Action The Cumberland sunk 

 and Congress burned The First Monitor Engagement with the Merrimac Notes on Recent Actions The Shah 

 and Huascar An Ironclad tackled by a Merchantman 1 



CHAPTER II. 

 MEN OF PEACE. 



Naval Life in Peace Times A Grand Exploring Voyage The Cruise of the Challenger Its Work Deep-sea Soundings 

 Five Miles down Apparatus employed Ocean Treasures A Gigantic Sea-monsterTristan d'Acunha A 

 Discovery Interesting to the Discovered The Two Crusoes The Inaccessible Island Solitary Life The Sea- 

 cart Swimming Pigs -Rescued at Last The Real Crusoe Island to Let Down South The Land of Desolation 

 Kerguelen The Sealers' Dreary Life In the Antarctic Among the Icebergs 28 



CHAPTER III. 



THE MEN OF THE SEA. 



The Great Lexicographer on Sailors The Dangers of the Sea How Boys become Sailors Young Amyas Leigh The 

 Genuine Jack Tar Training-Ships versus the old Guard-Ships" Sea-goers and Waisters "The Training Under- 

 goneRoutine on Board Never-ending Work Ship like a Lady's Watch Watches and "Bells" Old Grogram 

 and Grog The Sailor's Sheet Anchor- Shadows in the Seaman's Life The Naval Cat Testimony and Opinion 

 of a Medical Officer An Example Boy Flogging in the Navy Shakespeare and Herbert on Sailors and the 

 Sea 42 



CHAPTER IV. 



PERILS OF THE SAILOR'S LIFE. 



The Loss of the Captain Six Hundred Souls swept into Eternity vrithout a Warning The Mansion and the Cottage 

 alike Sufferers Causes of the Disaster Horrors of the Scene Noble Captain Burgoyne Narratives qf 

 Survivors An almost Incredible Feat Loss of the Royal George A. Great Disaster caused by a Trifle Nine 

 Hundred Lost A Child saved by a Sheep The Portholes Upright An Involuntary Bath of Tar Rafts of 

 Corpses The Vessel Blown up in 1839-40 The Loss of the Vanguard Half a Million sunk in Fifty Minutes - 

 Admirable Discipline on Board- All Saved The Court Martial 54 



CHAPTER V. 



PERILS OF THE SAILOR'S LIFE (continue^. 



The Value of Discipline The Loss of the Kent Fire on Board The Ship Waterlogged Death in Two Forms-A Sail 

 in Sight Transference of Six Hundred Passengers to a Small Brig Splendid Discipline of the Soldiers Imper- 

 turbable Coolness of the Captain- Loss of the Birkenhead Literally broken in TAVO Noble Conduct of the 

 Military A Contrary Example -Wreck of the Medusa Run on a Sand-bank Panic on Board Raft constructed 

 Insubordination and Selfishness One Hundred and Fifty Souls abandoned- Drunkenness and Mutiny on the 



