CHAPTER XX

HOME AGAIN 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The author as a Midshipman in 1856. From an oil painting _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_ The author as a Naval Cadet, 1853. From a miniature 6

H.M.S. “Princess Royal,” of 91 guns, 1853 10

The signal flying for war, and Fleet cheering 26

H.M.S. “Raleigh,” 50-gun sailing frigate, wrecked off Macao (China), the 14th April 1857 86

The battle of Fatshan, showing the sinking of Commodore The Honourable Henry Keppel’s galley, 1st June 1857 128

H.M.S. “Pearl,” 21-gun corvette 148

The author at the present day 170