# Champions of the fleet

Author: Fraser, Edward, 1859?-

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65978

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Champions+of+the+fleet+Fraser&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

These tales of the navy of the fighting days of old are to some extent, it may seem, cruises in rather out-of-the-way waters. At the same time, they may claim present-day associations that should render them not out of place just now. How and why, for instance, the world-famous name _Dreadnought_ came into the Royal Navy is a story of interest on its own account that ought to be timely. With that also is told something of what our _Dreadnoughts_ of old did under fire in the fighting days of history: with Drake; against the Armada; with Sir Walter Raleigh; against De Ruyter and the Dutchmen; at La Hogue; how one gave the _sobriquet_ “Old Dreadnought” to the famous Boscawen; how Nelson’s un...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/champions-of-the-fleet-65978/chapters/20/index.md)