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A FRIGATE UNDER SAIL

SEA LIFE IN NELSON’S TIME

BY

JOHN MASEFIELD

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

First Published in 1905

TO

CAPTAIN HENRY BAYNHAM, R.N.

I thank Mr W. Barclay Squire and Mr F. Kidson, for their versions of the tune, “Drops of Brandy”; and Mr Martin Shaw for permission to use his arrangement of the tune of “Spanish Ladies.” I also wish to thank Mr Laurence Binyon for his help in the selection of the illustrations here reproduced.