Recollections of My Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Fayrer, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330762231 ISBN 13: 9781330762233

Verlag: LULU PR, 2018

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Excerpt from Recollections of My Life

My father, who retired as a commander, entered the navy at an early age: he served first as a midshipman on board h.m.s. Caroline, Captain Page, and subsequently, among other ships, in the Impérieuse under Lord Cochrane, where among his messmates were Marryat, Houston Stewart, Walpole, and others who rose to distinction. In 1807 he was severely wounded, when in command of the boats of the Impérieuse, in an attack off the coast of Corsica upon a heavily armed ship which was taken with great loss on both sides. Lord Napier of Merchiston was with him on this occasion, and was also wounded. The ship, which proved to be a Maltese privateer under French colours, fired upon the boats: they immediately attacked and took her by boarding, losing many men. My father killed the captain Of the privateer, and had, with other wounds, his right arm shattered by a bullet. For his services on this occasion he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1808. When lying unconscious from fever in Malta Hospital, some one hung a gold cross and chain round his neck with an inscrip tion: he never knew the donor. He recovered after a long illness, with his right arm badly crippled, and remained for some time on half pay. He served afterwards, and was first lieutenant of the Orpheus, Captain Hugh Pigott, during the American war. Subsequently he obtained permission to command an Indiaman, and for many years sailed in ships of that class, the Lady Flora being the last.

My earliest recollections are Of Milnthorpe, Kendal, and Ambleside. I remember Wordsworth, who lived at Rydal Mount, and Hartley Coleridge, the poet; also my father's friend, Professor Wilson of Edinburgh (christopher North), who used to visit us. We removed to Scotland when my father was appointed to command one of h.m. Steam packets, flying the pennant and sailing between Portpatrick and Donaghadee, Ireland. It was my ramblings here on the sea-shore and amongst the rocks, and occasional Shooting and fishing expeditions with my father, that first developed my taste for natural history and for sport.

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• Verlag: LULU PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330762231
• ISBN 13: 9781330762233
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 574
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