| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Edward Pellew -- Partisan and Patriarch -- 2 'My Dear Indefatigable' -- 3 The Fortunate Few -- 4 'Never Was Such an Action Known' -- 5 The Nature of Patronage -- The Honourable George Cadogan, 1783-1864 -- Jeremiah Coghlan, c. 1778-1844 -- William Kempthorne, 1781-1835 -- 6 'Boys Grown to Manhood' -- Nicholas Lechmere Pateshall, 1781-1856 -- Henry Hart, 1781-1857 -- Thomas Groube, 1774-1850 -- 7 Diversity and Responsibility -- Alex McVicar, 1768-1840 -- John McKerlie, 1775-1848 -- John Thomson, 1774-1835 -- John Gaze, c. 1779-1851 -- George Chace, c. 1773-1840 -- 8 Friends, Family and the Falmouth Connection -- James Bray, 1778-1812 -- William Warden, 1782-1807 -- Philip Frowd, 1779-1802 -- Richard Delves Broughton, 1784-1806 -- Robert Carthew Reynolds, 1782-1804 -- 9 'Faithful and Attached Companions' -- 10 'No State in Life More Honourable' -- APPENDIX The Spencer-Pellew Correspondence of February 1799 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
A fascinating account of varied careers, providing a rich snapshot of the later eighteenth-century sailing navy in microcosm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indefatigable (Ship) -- History -- 18th century
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Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 18th century
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Indefatigable (Ship) |
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Great Britain. Royal Navy |
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Midshipmen -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Biography
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Sailors -- Great Britain -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
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Sailors
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Midshipmen
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Campbell, Lorna M., author
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| ISBN |
9781782048855 |
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1782048855 |
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