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Baron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
THE MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD
CHAPTER I. I SEE THE FLEET
CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF SERVICE
CHAPTER III. THE SHIP OF HAPPIEST MEMORY
CHAPTER IV. THE SHIP OF UNHAPPY MEMORY
CHAPTER V. THE MIDSHIPMAN OF 1864
CHAPTER VI. STRICT SERVICE
CHAPTER VII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA
CHAPTER VIII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (Continued)
CHAPTER IX. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (Continued)
CHAPTER X. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA
CHAPTER XI. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (Continued)
CHAPTER XII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (Continued)
CHAPTER XIII. FLAG-LIEUTENANT AT PLYMOUTH
CHAPTER XIV. POLITICAL EVENTS OF 1873–80 AND POSTSCRIPT
CHAPTER XV. AN IRISH ELECTION AND IRISH POLITICS
CHAPTER XVI. MEMBER FOR WATERFORD, AND COMMANDER, ROYAL NAVY
CHAPTER XVII. WITH THE PRINCE IN INDIA
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EGYPTIAN WAR
CHAPTER XIX. THE EGYPTIAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XX. THE EGYPTIAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXI. THE EGYPTIAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXII. PASSING THROUGH EGYPT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SOUDAN WAR OF 1884–5
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXV. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXVI. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXX. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXII. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE SOUDAN WAR (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXV. ORGANISATION FOR WAR
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE TWENTY-ONE MILLION
CHAPTER XXXVII. H.M.S. UNDAUNTED
CHAPTER XXXVIII. H.M.S. UNDAUNTED (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SECOND SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMME
CHAPTER XL. STEAM RESERVE
CHAPTER XLI. VIEWS AND REVIEWS
CHAPTER XLII. COVETED CHINA
CHAPTER XLIII. THE INTROMISSION OF THE ADMIRALS
CHAPTER XLIV. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XLV. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES (Continued)
CHAPTER XLVI. TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES (Continued)
CHAPTER XLVII. H.M.S. RAMILLIES
CHAPTER XLVIII. HER MAJESTY'S MIDSHIPMEN
CHAPTER XLIX. THE PARLIAMENTARY ANVIL
CHAPTER L. THE CHANNEL FLEET
CHAPTER LI. BOAT RACING
CHAPTER LII. THE MEDITERRANEAN STATION
CHAPTER LIII. SPORTING MEMORIES
CHAPTER LIV. SPORTING MEMORIES (Continued)
CHAPTER LV. SPORTING MEMORIES (Continued)
CHAPTER LVI. HOME WATERS: THE LAST COMMAND
POSTSCRIPT. THE MAKING OF AN ADMIRAL
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Baron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The gunnery lieutenant of the Marlborough, Charles Inglis, was gifted with so great and splendid a voice, that, when he gave his orders from the middle deck, they were heard at every gun in the ship. We used to practise firing at a cliff in Malta Harbour, at a range of a hundred yards or so. I used to be sent on shore to collect the round-shot and bring them on board for future use. I remember that when, in the course of a lecture delivered to my men on board the Bulwark more than forty years afterwards, I related the incident, I could see by their faces that my audience did not believe me; though I showed to them the shot-holes in the face of the cliff, which remain to this day. On gunnery days, all fires were extinguished, in case a spark should ignite the loose powder spilt by the boys who brought the cartridges to the guns, making a trail to the magazines. At "night quarters," we were turned out of our hammocks, which were lashed up. The mess-tables were triced up overhead. The lower-deck ports being closed, there was no room to wield the wooden rammer; so that the charges for the muzzle-loading guns were rammed home with rope rammers. Before the order to fire was given, the ports were triced up. Upon one occasion, so anxious was a bluejacket to be first in loading and firing, that he cherished a charge hidden in his hammock since the last night quarters, a period of nearly three months, and, firing before the port was triced up, blew it into the next ship.
In those days, the master was responsible for the navigation of the ship. He was an old, wily, experienced seaman, who had entered the Service as master's mate. (When I was midshipman in the Defence, the master's assistant was Richard W. Middleton, afterwards Captain Middleton, chief organiser of the Conservative Central Office.) The master laid the course and kept the reckoning. As steam replaced sails, the office of master was transferred to the navigating officer, a lieutenant who specialised in navigation. The transformation was effected by the Order in Council of 26th June, 1867.
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