1st Edition

Recollections of my Sea Life 1808-1830 by Captain John Harvey Boeteler

By David Bonner-Smith Copyright 1942
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    Captain Boteler (1796-1885) came from a naval family, entering the navy as a Volunteer, First Class in 1808, was made lieutenant in September 1815, commander in 1830 and captain in 1851. He left the navy in 1830. These recollections, full of well-told naval anecdote, were written in old age, and published only for private circulation. They can be considered accurate, though dates are sometimes unclear.

    Boteler describes his service in the Baltic between 1809 and 1812, though there was an intervening period in the Channel and the North Sea before he returned to the Baltic late in the Napoleonic War. He served after the war in Gibraltar and on the Jamaica station, engaged in the suppression of piracy, and then more generally in the West Indies. Boteler quotes a detailed contemporary account of the battle of Navarino, 1827.

    INTRODUCTION

    AUTHOR'S PRÉFACÉ

    CHAPTER I
    The Botelers—Joining the Navy—Prison ships in the Medway—North
    Sea—Baltic convoys

    CHAPTER II
    Channel—North Sea—Baltic

    CHAPTER III
    West Indies—Passing for Lieutenant—Channel—Battle of Waterloo

    CHAPTER IV
    Lieutenant—Antelope, flagship on the Leeward Islands station

    CHAPTER V
    The Seagull, tender to the guardship at Sheerness

    CHAPTER VI
    Lent to the Royal Yacht—Visit to the battlefield of Waterloo

    CHAPTER VII
    The Ringdovc—Jamaica—Suppression of piracy

    CHAPTER VIII
    In command of the Renegade—The Spanish Main—Invalided


    CHAPTER IX
    Half Pay—The Albion—To Gibraltar with troops—Lisbon

    CHAPTER X
    The Training Brigs—In command of the Lyra

    CHAPTER XI
    Return to the A Ibion—Battie of Navarino

    CHAPTER X II
    Royal Yacht—In command of the Onyx—The Navarino Court-Martial
    —Promoted Commander—Marriage and close of service

    INDEX

    PLAN—The entrance to the Baltic

    Biography

    David Bonner-Smith