A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 1 (of 3) (Registro nro. 117533)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Keppel, Henry, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1904 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 1 (of 3) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-09-03 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A sailor''s life under four sovereigns, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Sir Henry Keppel is a naval memoir written in the late 19th century. It recounts the author’s early life and long Royal Navy career, blending lively anecdote with first-hand glimpses of global cruising, naval culture, and political events. Expect portraits of ships, shipmates, and admirals; scenes from Madeira to Rio, the West Indies, Mexico, and back; and encounters with figures like Lord Cochrane amid Brazilian independence. The tone is brisk, humorous, and observant, with an eye for both seamanship and society. The opening of the memoir traces Keppel from a perilous infancy and mischievous schooldays in Norfolk to the Royal Naval College and his first commission. He sketches a Whig-tinged family circle at Holkham, processions for Sir Francis Burdett, a tour to Newstead with the Duke of Sussex, Nelson connections, and the rituals and rough fun of cadet life before joining HMS Tweed. The narrative then shifts to sea: voyages to Madeira, Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco during Brazil’s upheavals, a meeting with Lord Cochrane, and the dramatic refuge of a fleeing Pernambuco leader on board. Further chapters cover River Plate calls and light-hearted midshipmen exploits, a winter run to Halifax with a bishop, West India cruising, Tampico and Vera Cruz (including an alligator episode), Havana, Port Royal, a captured slaver, and an inland visit to Xalapa. It closes this opening stretch with the Tweed’s 1827 recommission under Lord John Churchill, a near-miss with the Navarino campaign, and a fresh outward passage via Madeira and the Cape Verdes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Macmillan and Co., 1899 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography |
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| Uncontrolled term | Great Britain. Royal Navy |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder01kepp https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder02keppiala https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder03keppiala">https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder01kepp https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder02keppiala https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder03keppiala</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76808">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76808</a> |
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