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As soon as the night fell a boat with muffled oars was manned to carry the messenger on shore. I was in it; Mr Treenail the second lieutenant steering.

At thirteen, Tom Cringle enters the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy as a midshipman. Assigned at first to service in home water, Tom is soon transferred to the exotic West Indies, where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave running are the order of the day. In what Samuel Taylor Coleridge... Read Full Overview

As soon as the night fell a boat with muffled oars was manned to carry the messenger on shore. I was in it; Mr Treenail the second lieutenant steering.

Salt spray, gun smoke, and wit. Every tide brings a test. Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott drops you into a bustling West Indies setting where duty, danger, and friendship shape a young sailor's outlook as his ship ranges through Caribbean sea voyages under the White Ensign,... Read Full Overview

Tom Cringle's Log This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting:... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.