by V. A. Stuart
A voice from the Huntress’s upper deck hailed them and, at a nod from the Admiral, the barge commander answered it with a shrill, “Aye, aye—Huntress!” and, as he brought his craft smartly up to the midships chains, the side-party assembled and fell in at attention.
Phillip, conscious of a feeling of intense happiness and pride, stepped aboard his new command to the customary pipe and, from her deck, his hand raised in salute, he watched the Admiral’s barge pull away.
BOOKS CONSULTED
ON THE CRIMEAN WAR
GENERAL
History of the War Against Russia, E.H. Nolan (2 vols.,1857)
History of the War With Russia, H. Tyrell (3 vols., 1857)
The Campaign in the Crimea, G. Brackenbury, illustrated W. Simpson (1856)
The War in the Crimea, General Sir Edward Hamley (1891)
Letters from India and the Crimea, Surgeon-General J.A. Bostock (1896)
Letters from Headquarters, by a Staff Officer (1856)
The Crimea in 1854 and 1894, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood (1895)
The Destruction of Lord Raglan, Christopher Hibbert (1961)
Battles of the Crimean War, W. Baring Pemberton (1962)
The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953)
Crimean Blunder, Peter Gibbs (1960)
The Campaign in the Crimea, 1854–6: Despatches and Papers, compiled and arranged by Captain Sayer (1857)
Letters from Camp During the Siege of Sebastopol, Lt. Colonel C.G. Campbell (1894)
The Invasion of the Crimea, A.W. Kingslake (1863)
With the Guards We Shall Go, Mabel, Countess of Airlie (1933)
Britain’s Roll of Glory, D.H. Parry (1895)
Henry Clifford, V.C., General Sir Bernard Paget (1956)
BIOGRAPHIES
The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, Lt.-General L. Shadwell, C.B. (2 vols., 1881)
A Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Lyons, Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot, R.N. (1898)
NAVAL
The Russian War, 1854 (Baltic and Black Sea), D. Bonner-Smith and Captain A.C. Dewar, R.N. (1944)
Letters from the Black Sea, Admiral Sir Leopold Heath (1897)
A Sailor’s Life Under Four Sovereigns, Admiral of the Fleet the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B., O.M. (3 Vols., 1899)
From Midshipman to Field-Marshal, Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. (2 vols., 1906)
Letters from the Fleet in the Fifties, Mrs Tom Kelly (1902)
The British Fleet in the Black Sea, Maj.-General W. Brereton (1856)
Reminiscences of a Naval Officer, Sir G. Gifford (1892)
The Navy as I have known it, Vice-Admiral W. Freemantle (1899)
A Middy’s Recollections, The Hon. Victor Montagu (1898)
Medicine and the Navy, Lloyd and Coulter (Vol. IV, 1963)
The Price of Admiralty, Stanley Barret, Hale (1968)
The Wooden Fighting Ship, E.H.H. Archibald, Blandford (1968)
Seamanship Manual, Captain Sir George S. Naes, K.C.B., R.N., Griffin (1886)
The Navy of Britain, England’s Sea Officers, and A Social History of the Navy, Michael Lewis, Allen & Unwin (1939–60)
The Navy in Transition, Michael Lewis, Hodder & Stoughton (1965)
Files of The Illustrated London News and Mariner’s Mirror.
Unpublished Letters and Diaries.
The author acknowledges, with gratitude, the assistance
given by the Staff of the York City Library in obtaining books,
also that given by the Royal United Service Institution and
Francis Edwards Ltd.
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