Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral

We were cruising off Callao on the Pacific station when it all happened, and I daresay there are a good many others who will recollect all about it as well as myself. But to exp...

One day, some three years ago or so, I chanced to be down at Sheerness dockyard, and, while there, utilised my time by inspecting the various vessels scattered about this naval...

Some few years ago, when I was a youngster, I had what was then the great desire of my heart gratified by being allowed to accompany a party on a yachting cruise to the Mediterr...

"Don't know 'xactly, sir. P'raps that blessed sea-fog reminds me of it, somehow or other--though there's little likeness, as far as that goes, between the west coast and Portsmo...

This all happened a year or two before I went to sea, and so doesn't come under the ordinary designation of a "yarn," which, I take it, should only be about the doings of seafar...