Adventures of Marshall Vavasour by S. W. Sadler, R.N.
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October 2019
Originally published 1873
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Samuel Whitchurch Sadler, R.N.
ePublished by
October 2019
Originally published 1873
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Samuel Whitchurch Sadler, R.N.
Adventures of Marshall Vavasour, Midshipman is a story about a young boy coming of age in the British Navy during the Age of Sail, but, unusually for Age of Sail novels, this one takes place after the Napoleonic Wars are through.
Most of the great battles of the British Navy are in the past when this story starts in the 1820s, and steamships are well on their way to replacing the great sailing ships when the eponymous hero heads back to England—on a steamship—at the end.
Still, the reader does get to vicariously experience the British Navy attacking Acre in 1840, forty one years after Napoleon failed there, and the British Navy’s battle against the slave trade along Africa’s west coast.
Most of the great battles of the British Navy are in the past when this story starts in the 1820s, and steamships are well on their way to replacing the great sailing ships when the eponymous hero heads back to England—on a steamship—at the end.
Still, the reader does get to vicariously experience the British Navy attacking Acre in 1840, forty one years after Napoleon failed there, and the British Navy’s battle against the slave trade along Africa’s west coast.