| A Fleet In Being Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500403520 ISBN-13: 9781500403522 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1914 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I |
| Physical Information: 0.09" H x 6" W x 9" (0.15 lbs) 42 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Some thirty of her Majesty's men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in '97. With the exception of the Captain, the Chief Engineer, and maybe a few petty officers, nobody was more than twenty-eight years old. They ranged in the ward-room from this resourceful age to twenty-six or seven clear-cut, clean-shaved young faces with all manner of varied experience behind them. When one comes to think, it is only just that a light 20-knot cruiser should be handled, under guidance of an older head, by affable young gentlemen prepared, even sinfully delighted, to take chances not set down in books. |