A Voice from the Main Deck Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Intl Pub Marketing Inc
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
America's greatest victories for most of the War of 1812 were in naval engagements, where recent American innovations in ship design shocked the theoretically superior Royal Navy. Accounts of these actions by ordinary seamen are rare enough, but the narrative of Samuel Leech, who actually served with both sides during the war, is surely without parallel.
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Leech entered the Royal Navy at age 12, and his memoirs span 30 years of service. He recounts many details of daily life at sea, including heavy drinking, floggings, tyrannical captains, and the actions of the press gang. Captured during the War of 1812, he spent some time in the American service. Although drinking aboard U.S. Naval vessels had been abolished even at that early date, Leech found that the prevalence of floggings and autocratic captains was little different from that ot the Royal Navy.
Although the original edition is now a rare collector's item, this detailed narrative of life at sea has been heavily drawn upon by naval writers of fact and fiction for the past century.
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