The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
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Beresford Charles William De la Poer Beresford. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
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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Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford, born in 1846, was the second of five brothers, sons of Sir John de la Poer Beresford, fourth Marquess of Waterford. Lord Charles's elder brother, Sir John Henry de la Poer Beresford (to give him his full title), Earl and Viscount of Tyrone, Baron de la Poer of Curraghmore in the county of Waterford, and Baron Beresford of Beresford in the county of Cavan, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Tyrone of Haverfordwest in the county of Pembroke, in the Peerage of Great Britain, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, succeeded to these titles in 1866. Sir John joined the 1st Life Guards. He died in 1895, and was succeeded by his son (nephew to Lord Charles), as presently to be noted.
Of the other three brothers, Lord William de la Poer joined the 9th Lancers and became Military Secretary to five successive Viceroys of India, was a patron of the Turf, and died in 1900; Lord Marcus de la Poer joined the 7th Hussars, took charge of the King's racehorses, an office which he still fulfils, and was appointed Extra Equerry to King George; Lord Delaval James de la Poer (sixteen years younger than Lord Charles) ranched in North America and was killed in a railway accident in 1906.
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There speaks the Old Navy.
When a ship was paid off out of Malta Harbour, it was the custom that there should be a man standing erect on each of the trucks, main, mizen and fore. Many a time have I seen these men balanced more than 200 feet in the air, strip off their shirts and wave them. And once I saw a man holding to the vane-spindle set in the truck, and I saw the spindle break in his hand, and the man fall…
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