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FAMOUS FIGHTERS OF THE FLEET

THE ENEMY IN SIGHT—'FULL SPEED AHEAD!'
Looking down, on board a battleship, from the forward fighting-top.

FAMOUS FIGHTERSOF THE FLEET

GLIMPSES THROUGH THE CANNONSMOKE IN THE DAYS OFTHE OLD NAVY

BY

EDWARD FRASER

They left us a kingdom none can take,
The realm of the circling sea,
To be ruled by the rightful sons of Blake
And the Rodneys yet to be.

Henry Newbolt.

As it was in the days of long ago,
And as it still shall be.

Rudyard Kipling.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1904

All rights reserved

DEDICATION

The lasses and the little ones, Jack Tars, they look to you;
The despots over yonder, let 'em do whate'er they please,
God bless the little isle where a man may still be true,
God bless the noble isle that is Mistress of the Seas.

Tennyson.

PREFACE

This book, as far as its subject is concerned, is something of anexperiment, something of a new departure. It is an attempt to interestpeople by recalling some of the associations of the brave days of oldthat cluster round and attach to certain historic man-of-war names. Asfar as that goes, indeed, having for its subject, as it has, the doingsin battle of famous hearts of oak of the fighting times—

Those oaken giants

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