"A most delightful volume. Many delightful records of experience in the Naval Service have recently appeared, and for genuine interest and frank and easy style I am disposed to reckon Admiral Montagu's volume among the best."—_Navy and Army Illustrated._ A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Minor punctuation and printer errors were corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. The sidenotes have been regularised. In the original, the year was at the top of every page, the month was specified in the first sidenote entry for each page, and continuing sidenotes on a page only gave the day unless there was a change of month. I have included the year and month at the start of each section and added the year to the first entry of a new month.