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Title: A sailor's life under four sovereigns
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Keppel, Henry, Sir, 1809-1904
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ox-seat, escaped the odoriferous bath. That gallant officer, Sir William Hoste, whocommanded the Albion, one of the harbour guard-ships, used to visit us during play-hours and tip theNorfolk boys with a half-guinea each, althoughhimself a poor man. We were proud at being noticedby the gallant Hoste, who commanded at the finestfrigate action off Lissa, with ^uch men as JamesGordon Phipps Hornby, Whitby, and others withwhom I subsequently became intimately acquainted.There was also a young fellow, Lieutenant the Hon.William Anson, belonging to the Tribune, 42-gunfrigate, who used to come and see me and chat aboutHolkham. Adjoining the Naval College was thehouse of the President-Commissioner, Captain Hon.Sir George Grey, brother of the Premier. His nephew George and I became great friends :he joined the service, but not through the College. While at the College we had repeated visits fromthose who had previously left, and who put us up tothe orgies that went on in the hulks alongside the
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The Defence. 24 A Sailors Life CHAP. 1823. ships to which they belonged. I did not foil toremember this when my turn came. My brother Tom joined on December 5, so thatwhen we returned in January, 1824, from theChristmas holidays, we had only been two monthstogether. Among the friends I made at College were

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