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Title: A Sailor of King George

Author: Frederick Hoffman

Release Date: December 13, 2008 [Ebook #27520]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Captain F. W. Hoffman, R.N.]

A SAILOR
OF KING GEORGE

THE JOURNALS OF
CAPTAIN FREDERICK HOFFMAN, R.N.
1793-1814

EDITED BY
_A. BECKFORD BEVAN_
AND
_H.B. WOLRYCHE-WHITMORE_

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1901

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

PREFACE.

In a memorial presented in 1835 to the Lords of the Admiralty, the author
of the journals which form this volume details his various services. He
joined the Navy in October, 1793, his first ship being H.M.S. _Blonde_. He
was present at the siege of Martinique in 1794, and returned to England
the same year in H.M.S. _Hannibal_ with despatches and the colours of
Martinique. For a few months the ship was attached to the Channel Fleet,
and then suddenly, in 1795, was ordered to the West Indies again. Here he
remained until 1802, during which period he was twice attacked by yellow
fever.

The author was engaged in upwards of eighteen boat actions, in one of
which, at Tiberoon Bay, St. Domingo, he was wounded in the head, and
entirely lost the hearing of his left ear.

As first lieutenant of H.M.S. _Volage_, while attempting to cut out an
enemy's vessel laden with tobacco from under the guns of the Moro Castle,
St. Jago de Cuba, after a running fight of two hours with three Spanish
privateers, he was obliged to surrender, and was carried prisoner to St.
Jago, where he remained for six weeks until exchanged. In 1802 he returned
to England in