Download or read book The Council of the the Navy Records Society, Vol. 1 written by Navy Records Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Council of the the Navy Records Society, Vol. 1: 1902-1903 IN the Introduction to vol. Ii. I explained my reasons for deferring the publication of the papers relating to the earlier years of Byam Martin's career in favour of those which recorded the less well-known events of his service in the Baltic, on the coast of Spain, and at Antwerp, as well as the story of his life as comptroller of the navy, and after his summary dismissal from the Office on his refusal to support the Reform Bill in Parliament (vol. Iii. P. The present volume, being in point of date the first of the series, gives the story of his boyhood and earlier service as midshipman, lieutenant, and commander, together with his correspondence as a young captain, commanding cruising frigates on the coast of Ireland or of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.