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A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron by Rudyard Kipling explores great britain, great britain. royal navy, sea life.
A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron is a work by Rudyard Kipling. Its subjects include Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Sea life.
From the opening pages: “Some thirty of her Majesty’s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in ’97.”
