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When Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was hailed as the Wizard of the Sea during his 1837-1839 visit to America, he had already written most, and surely the best, of his maritime fiction. Today many fans of Forester's Hornblow or O'Brien's Aubrey are aware that their heroes are closely molded on the exploits of an actual British naval officer, Lord Cochrane. Few, however, are aware that Marryat, who created the genre of nautical fiction, did so likewise, only he was actually there! He served his first three years (1806-1809) as a midshipman on Cochrane's Imperieuse. And that was just the beginning of a diverse naval and literary career. In active service until 1830, he was frequently invalided home for everything from malaria to frequent broken blood vessels (eventually fatal). A strong swimmer, he accumulated 27 various recognitions for life saving (once a zealous bum-boat women nearly drowned him)! Friends with Babbage, Dickens, and Forster, his output eventually included technical manuals and reports, diaries, magazine pieces (some of which he edited), and juvenilia, as well as non-maritime novels. His style, always plausible, was, like early Dickens, picaresque, with a tendency toward farce bordering on comedy.With Cochrane he cruised the French coast, the Mediterranean, and the Spanish coast (culminating in the affair of the Basque Roads). Along with Hannay's 1889 biography, you might want to read, or re-visit, some of Marryat's early fiction (all available from the same publisher in a uniform edition), especially 'Mr. Midshipman Easy', 'Peter Simple' and 'Frank Mildmay'. The adventures of these heroes, especially the latter, are autobiographical retellings of episodes from his cruises with Cochrane! Between 1806 and 1815 he cruised the North Sea, the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the east coast of America, and the Caribbean, with three different commands. At St. Helena he was present at the death of Napoleon, and carried the dispatches to England. He carried out revenue duties in the Channel, and prepared a critical report on the Admiralty's efforts to control smuggling. He had also written against impressment as a recruiting method, and published a Code of Signals for ships that was widely adopted. While doing extensive river work during the 1824 invasion of Burma, he made a collection of jewels literally cut from the bodies of slain enemies!
His generosity, combined with a strong tendency to really bad investments, drove him to the Continent for two years, where he continued to write furiously. Then, during his visit to the U.S., which saw the ascent of Victoria to the throne, he kept a diary which was published in six volumes. He took time out, though, to spend a miserable winter in Canada to participate as a British officer in the suppression of a short-lived insurrection!
His health deteriorated steadily during his last years. After one of his naval officer sons was lost at sea, he lived less than a year. This 1889 biography depends heavily on material Marryat's family deemed fit to publish in 1872. More recent treatments of the subject may have filled some of the inevitable lacunae, while providing a broader historical context, but Hannay is closest to the source. The editor has "Contemporized" this "Classic" by restructuring and modernizing spelling and syntax, and providing a few helpful editorial notes, all to make it more accessible to modern readers.
Michael Wonio, Volunteer, 1877 Iron Barque Elissa, Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston
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Life of Frederick Marryat David Hannay John Parker Anderson 9781141167012 Books Reviews
Captain Maryatt is often described as the originator of the genre of nautical fiction. Yet, hitherto, little has been known about the personal life of this man, one of Nelson's own. Maryatt sailed with Captain Thomas Cochrane, the dashing frigate Captain and the Earl of Dundonald, (when he was known to his enemy as the "sea wolf"), and many of these real life experiences & personal reminiscences have found their way into his fiction.
An interesting and informative read.
I can recommend it.
When Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was hailed as the Wizard of the Sea during his 1837-1839 visit to America, he had already written most, and surely the best, of his maritime fiction. Today many fans of Forester's Hornblow or O'Brien's Aubrey are aware that their heroes are closely molded on the exploits of an actual British naval officer, Lord Cochrane. Few, however, are aware that Marryat, who created the genre of nautical fiction, did so likewise, only he was actually there! He served his first three years (1806-1809) as a midshipman on Cochrane's Imperieuse. And that was just the beginning of a diverse naval and literary career. In active service until 1830, he was frequently invalided home for everything from malaria to frequent broken blood vessels (eventually fatal). A strong swimmer, he accumulated 27 various recognitions for life saving (once a zealous bum-boat women nearly drowned him)! Friends with Babbage, Dickens, and Forster, his output eventually included technical manuals and reports, diaries, magazine pieces (some of which he edited), and juvenilia, as well as non-maritime novels. His style, always plausible, was, like early Dickens, picaresque, with a tendency toward farce bordering on comedy.
With Cochrane he cruised the French coast, the Mediterranean, and the Spanish coast (culminating in the affair of the Basque Roads). Along with Hannay's 1889 biography, you might want to read, or re-visit, some of Marryat's early fiction (all available from the same publisher in a uniform edition), especially 'Mr. Midshipman Easy', 'Peter Simple' and 'Frank Mildmay'. The adventures of these heroes, especially the latter, are autobiographical retellings of episodes from his cruises with Cochrane! Between 1806 and 1815 he cruised the North Sea, the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the east coast of America, and the Caribbean, with three different commands. At St. Helena he was present at the death of Napoleon, and carried the dispatches to England. He carried out revenue duties in the Channel, and prepared a critical report on the Admiralty's efforts to control smuggling. He had also written against impressment as a recruiting method, and published a Code of Signals for ships that was widely adopted. While doing extensive river work during the 1824 invasion of Burma, he made a collection of jewels literally cut from the bodies of slain enemies!
His generosity, combined with a strong tendency to really bad investments, drove him to the Continent for two years, where he continued to write furiously. Then, during his visit to the U.S., which saw the ascent of Victoria to the throne, he kept a diary which was published in six volumes. He took time out, though, to spend a miserable winter in Canada to participate as a British officer in the suppression of a short-lived insurrection!
His health deteriorated steadily during his last years. After one of his naval officer sons was lost at sea, he lived less than a year. This 1889 biography depends heavily on material Marryat's family deemed fit to publish in 1872. More recent treatments of the subject may have filled some of the inevitable lacunae, while providing a broader historical context, but Hannay is closest to the source. The editor has "Contemporized" this "Classic" by restructuring and modernizing spelling and syntax, and providing a few helpful editorial notes, all to make it more accessible to modern readers.
Michael Wonio, Volunteer, 1877 Iron Barque Elissa, Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston
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