Some recollections

• Main Author: Bridge, Cyprian, Sir, 1839-1924
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: J. Murray 1919
• Subjects: Bridge; Cyprian; Sir; 1839-1924; Great Britain. Royal Navy > Correspondence; Admirals > Great Britain > Correspondence; Voyages and travels; Kamchatka; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/68778

Some Recollections Preface -- Introductory -- Interesting to relations only --- Early days before entering the navy -- Entering the navy -- Bluejackets and their kits -- "Hoisting the pendant" in olden time -- My first ship -- My first foreign service: the West Indies -- Shaking down in a newly commissioned ship -- In the flag-ship -- The West Indies again -- Some war service -- Refitting in preparation for service in the Pacific -- In the Pacific - Valparaiso - Santiago de Chile -- Sandwich Islands and Kamchatka - Vancouver's Island -- Early San Francisco - Coast of Mexico - Treasure shipping -- Panama to Peru and Valparaiso -- Central America - A long Pacific voyage - An episode in the early history of San Francisco -- Another long voyage -- From the Pacific to England - Paying off -- Service in the East Indies -- Burma - Passing for lieutenant - Madras and Trincomalee - The Red Sea - Australia -- Promotion - Return to England -- English Channel and Mediterranean -- Coast of Ireland - The West Indies and North America again -- Portsmouth - The Channel -- Mediterranean - Devonport - China -- Australian Station again -- The South Sea Islands -- Cruising in the Western Pacific -- Missionaries in the South Sea Islands -- Incidents on different islands -- New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia - relations with South Sea Islands -- Some excursions -- Polynesians -- Ancient remains - War and peace in Oceania - Peace-making -- A postscript Reference to Newfoundland : p. 17, 25-26; Includes index