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LETTERS FROM HMS BRITANNIA: William Lambert and the Late Victorian Navy Paperback - 2011
by A. B. Demaus
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- Title LETTERS FROM HMS BRITANNIA: William Lambert and the Late Victorian Navy
- Author A. B. Demaus
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 96
- Language ENG
- Publisher Amberley, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Date 2011-07
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781848683051
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
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Amberley Publishing. New Condition. 2010. Soft Cover. 8vo 1848683057 Paperback: Illustrated with photographs. 96 pages clean and tight. Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two years to complete. He returned to England determined to pursue a career in the Royal Navy. His letters home from the service, assiduously compiled by A. B. Demaus, record the experience of a capable, ambitious cadet during a time of rapid technological change and relative peace. The Navy's task of protecting the empire's vast assets had not been interrupted by a major war since Nelson's day. Lambert's sea service, virtually all of which was overseas, involved time in two corvettes, an ironclad central battery ship, two cruisers, and a battleship. In his later career, he became the commanding offi cer of one of the earliest destroyers. He vividly describes the shipboard life and 'runs…
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