Champions of the Fleet
by Edward Fraser
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fraser, Edward, 1859?-
- Title
- Champions of the fleet : Captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire
- Credits
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Naval battles -- Great Britain
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 65978
- Release Date
- August 2, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAMPIONS OF THE FLEET
- 6.I OUR DREADNOUGHTS :— THEIR NAME AND BATTLE RECORD
- 7.II “KENT CLAIMS THE FIRST BLOW!”
- 8.III THE AVENGERS OF THE BLACK HOLE:— WHAT THE NAVY DID FOR CLIVE
- 9.IV BOSCAWEN’S BATTLE:— THE TAKING OF THE TÉMÉRAIRE
- 10.V HAWKE’S FINEST PRIZE:— HOW THE FORMIDABLE CHANGED HER FLAG
- 11.VI WHEN THE VICTORY FIRST JOINED THE FLEET — HOW THEY BUILT THE VICTORY AT CHATHAM
- 12.VII ON VALENTINE’S NIGHT IN FRIGATE BAY
- 13.VIII THE PAGEANT OF THE DONEGAL :— A MEMORY OF ’98
- 14.IX ON BOARD OUR FLAGSHIPS AT TRAFALGAR — CAPTAIN HARDY AND THOSE WHO MANNED THE VICTORY — “OLD IRONSIDES” AND THE THIRD IN COMMAND
- 15.FOOTNOTES
- 16.INDEX
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