THE MEMOIRS OF
ADMIRAL
LORD BERESFORD
WITH TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
FOURTH EDITION IN ONE VOLUME
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published (2 vols.) . . . . October 6th, 1914
Second Edition . . . . November, 1914
Third Edition . . . . December, 1914
Fourth Edition (1 vol.) . . . . September, 1916
TO
MY BROTHER OFFICERS
OF THE
ROYAL NAVY
PREFACE
This work is a record of my life from theyear 1859, when I entered the Royal Navy,to the year 1909, when I hauled down myflag and came on shore.
For the Introduction and the Notes, whichhave been written in order to amplify the personalnarrative and to connect it with the historicalevents of the period, Mr. L. Cope Cornford isresponsible.
I have dedicated the book to my brother officersof the Royal Navy.
As luck would have it, my career has been ofa singularly varied character. And my hope is that,in reading its story, boys and girls, as well as theirelders, may find pleasure.
CHARLES BERESFORD
Admiral
1 GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, W.
June 1914
CONTENTS
CHAP.
III. THE SHIP OF HAPPIEST MEMORY
IV. THE SHIP OF UNHAPPY MEMORY
VI. STRICT SERVICE
VII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA—
I. TO THE ANTIPODES
VIII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (continued)—
II. MY TWO FAITHFUL SERVANTS
IX. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (continued)—
III. TAHITI AND THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
X. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (continued)—
IV. OLD JAPAN. NOTE
XI. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (continued)—
V. WITH THE DUKE IN JAPAN
XII. THE CRUISE OF H.M.S. GALATEA (continued)—
VI. THE HOMEWARD VOYAG