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100	1		_aKeppel, Henry, Sir, _d1809-1904
245	1	2	_aA sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-03
508			_aTerry Jeffress, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"A sailor''s life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)" by Sir Henry Keppel is a naval memoir written in the late 19th century. This concluding volume follows Keppel’s later career across Asia and Africa—combat on China’s rivers, visits to Sarawak, anti-slavery patrols off East Africa, big-game interludes, and service at Court—told in brisk, anecdotal entries that blend operations, travel, and high society. The opening of the volume plunges into Keppel’s firsthand account of the Fatshan Creek action, where his boat is sunk under heavy fire before a renewed assault scatters and captures most of a Chinese junk fleet; he includes a captured proclamation from Admiral Yeh and memorializes fallen and wounded comrades. The narrative then shifts into journal-like notes: a court-martial after the loss of Raleigh, reassignment and movements on the Canton River, a detour to Sarawak with Brooke’s circle and jungle excursions, and onward travel through Singapore and India amid news of honors. Returning to England, Keppel records a whirl of hunting and society, a deft recovery of a stolen officer’s watch, and his first turns as Groom-in-Waiting at Osborne and Windsor with lively court vignettes. He next takes the Cape command in HMS Forte, carries Sir George Grey via Madeira and Rio, shifts to HMS Brisk for an East African cruise that includes edging into Delagoa Bay, a moonlit turtle foray at Europa Island, the seizure of the slaver Manuela, hippopotamus shooting near Zanzibar, and a return to Mauritius to rehoist his flag and stage a mock landing operation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1899
653			_aAdmirals -- Great Britain -- Biography
653			_aGreat Britain. Royal Navy
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder01kepp https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder02keppiala https://archive.org/details/sailorslifeunder03keppiala
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76810
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