Contents - Extracts from the "Naval Sketch Book" Vol I

Selected Extracts from the "Naval Sketch Book" Vol I

by

Captain Glascock

Contents

The First Volume

At the present time I've only included the items which I thought of interest, tickled me, or seemed worth including - maybe more i.d.c. If I've not made a link it isn't there.

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Frontispiece
The Chase - a Tale founded on Fact	1
Strictures on Smollett	121
Notes for Naval Maxims-(found in the Pocket-book of a Post Captain)	141
Jacks Eccentricities:-
A Distinction without a Difference	147
Good Pilotage	149
Jack a Punster	151
Too much of one thing	153
Taking it Easy	156
A New System of Signals	163
Dialogue of the Deck.-The March-o'-Mind; Or, Intellect Afloat.- Jack a Duellist	201
Twenty-eight Gun Ships and Ten-gun Brigs.	239
Recreations in Rhyme.-The Lieutenant's Lament	267
The Boarders.-A Galley Stave	271
Leaves of the Private Log of a Captain on Half-Pay	276
Jack in Parliament.-Dialogue of the Deck	282

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