| Summary: | A Young Heart of Oak Early childhood. Parentage -- Danish ancestry -- Baldur -- Grandfather and father -- Huguenot ancestry -- La Tranchée family -- Childhood -- Wordsworth on immortality -- Malta. School -- Holidays -- Sister's illness and death -- Rev. E. T. Wayne's sermon -- H.M.S. "Britannia". At Balcaskie -- Britannia -- Cadet Captains -- Dieppe and Havre -- Prize-giving by H.R.H. Princess of Wales -- "Sea time" -- Appointment to Boadicea -- South African station. Portsmouth -- Home -- Letters from Port Natal -- Appointed aide-de-camp to Commodore -- Letters during Zulu War -- Prince Imperial's death -- His prayer -- South Africa. Letters from Simon's Bay -- Government House -- Cetewayo -- Letters from friends -- Homeward Bound. School on board -- Cruise round South African coast -- Transvaal war -- Return home -- Appointment to Liberty -- Sailors' Rest, Plymouth -- Conversion to God -- Miss Weston's account -- Greenwich. Examination -- Visit to Ireland -- Letters from Royal Naval College -- Work in London -- Letters from Royal Naval College, Portsmouth -- Bible readings -- Social purity alliance -- Mediterranean. H.M.S. Téméraire -- Letters from Malta -- Naval Church Society -- H.M.S. Falcon -- Greek islands -- Illness -- Letters from Malta hospital -- Letter from Miss Douglas -- Home -- "Pilot" and "Iron Duke". Davenport -- Work in Pilot -- Appointment to Iron Duke -- Work on board -- Lisbon -- Story of hermit -- North American station. Appointment to Emerald -- Voyage to Bermuda -- Halifax to St. John's -- Appointed navigator -- Letters from Newfoundland -- Return to Halifax -- In the West Indies. Work on board the Emerald -- Lieutenant Lindsay's death -- Royal Naval Christian Union -- Letters from West Indian islands -- Mr. Capper's account -- Letter from Rev. N. Darrell -- The last voyage home. Norse king -- Letters from Newfoundland -- Holiness -- Jubilee -- Illness -- Invalided home -- Arrival at Liverpool -- His mother's journal -- Departure to his own country -- "With Christ, which is far ...
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