Reminiscences of a Naval Officer
by Abraham Crawford
"A Quarter-deck View of the War Against Napoleon"
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Reminiscences of a Naval Officer by Abraham Crawford
Details
War:
Napoleonic Wars
Perspective:
Commanders
Military Unit:
Royal Marines
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
328
Published Date:
1999
ISBN13:
9781861761095
Description
Number four in the 'Sailors' Tales' series contains the reminiscences of Captain Abraham Crawford, who served during the Napoleonic Wars, from 1801 to 1815, first with Captain Sir Edward Owen in the blockading squadron off Boulogne, participating in the attempted attack on the French fleet in port using Fulton's 'torpedoes', and later with Admiral Duckworth's squadron in the Mediterranean during the war with Turkey. He was involved in the Navy's support of the army in the Peninsula War, serving on the east coast of Spain at the siege of Tarragona. Amongst other unlikely details of naval life he describes how to turn the quarterdeck of a frigate into a dance floor when giving a ball on board. lmprobable incidents and intimate descriptions of shipboard life make Crawford's memoirs compulsive reading. --Publisher.
