‘. . . . _the sailor men_ _That sail upon the seas_, _To fight the Wars and keep the Laws_, _And live on yellow_ peas’ Some thirty of her Majesty’s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in ’97.…
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