Life Before the Mast: An Anthology of Eye-Witness Accounts from the Age of Fighting Sail

by Lewis, Jon E.

• ISBN13: 9780785815174
• ISBN10: 0785815171
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
The Glorious First of June, 1794	1	(5)
William Parker
The Pimp, the Smugglers and the Mutineers: The Extraordinary Voyages of the Gorgon and the Hind, 1794--7	6	(40)
James Gardner
The Nile Campaign, 1798	46	(36)
Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
``So Mad a Scheme'': The Suffering of a Deserter Turned Cannibal, 1799	82	(7)
John Brown
The Cruise of the Speedy, 1800--1	89	(39)
Thomas Cochrane
The Perilous Adventures and Vicissitudes of a Midshipman, 1801--4	128	(37)
George Vernon Jackson
``Till We Are Crowned with Victory'': The Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
The Log of the Defiance & Thomas Graves	160	(5)
Trafalgar: The Midshipman's View, 1805	165	(5)
R.F. Roberts
Trafalgar: The View from the Lower-Deck, 1805	170	(2)
Sam
The Death of Nelson, 1805	172	(22)
William Beatty
The Mutiny on the Constitution, 1805--6	194	(13)
James R. Durand
The Prize, 1807--8	207	(30)
William Dillon
The Fortune of War, 1808	237	(6)
William Dawson
Aix Roads, 1808--9	243	(31)
William Richardson
Tempest, 1810	274	(25)
Robert Eastwick
A Pressed Man, 1811	299	(19)
Robert Hay
The Defeat of HMS Guerriere, 1812	318	(4)
Isaac Hull
Frigate Engagement: HMS Macedonian v. USS United States, 1812	322	(27)
Samuel Leech
The War of the Lakes, 1812--13	349	(46)
Ned Myers
Privateering, 1812--13	395	(21)
George Little
A Frigate in the South Pacific, 1812--14	416	(18)
David Porter
The Escape of the Hornet, 1815	434	(7)
Captain Biddle
Sources	441	(2)
Acknowledgements	443	(1)
Bibliography	444	(2)
Appendix I: Life and Death in the Royal Navy, 1794--1805	446	(3)
Appendix II: `This naval life'	449	(11)
Appendix III: Tables of battlefleet tonnages and strength, 1790--1815	460	(13)
Appendix IV: Naval strategy and tactics at the time of Trafalgar	473	(21)
Appendix V: Operating Procedures, USS Constellation, 27 June 1798	494