Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51357-h.htm or 51357-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51357/51357-h/51357-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51357/51357-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofp00pettuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: A^o). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: vij^{mo.}). As noted in the Preface, some [missing words] in the text have been added inside brackets [ ] in this edition. Many archaic and nautical terms are explained in the Footnotes. More detail can be found at the end of the book. Publications of the Navy Records Society VOL. LI. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHINEAS PETT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHINEAS PETT Edited by W. G. Perrin [Illustration: (publisher's colophon)] Printed for the Navy Records Society MDCCCCXVIII THE COUNCIL OF THE NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY 1917-1918 PATRON THE KING PRESIDENT THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE HAMILTON, G.C.S.I. VICE-PRESIDENTS CORBETT, SIR JULIAN S., F.S.A. CUSTANCE, ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD N., G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O., D.C.L. FIRTH, PROFESSOR C. H., LL.D., F.B.A. GRAY, ALBERT, K.C., C.B. COUNCILLORS ATKINSON, C. T. BETHELL, ADMIRAL HON. SIR A.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G. BRINDLEY, HAROLD H. CALLENDER, GEOFFREY A. R. DARTMOUTH, THE EARL OF, K.C.B. DESART, THE EARL OF, K.C.B. DEWAR, COMMANDER ALFRED C., R.N. GOUGH-CALTHORPE, VICE-ADMIRAL THE HON. SIR SOMERSET A., K.C.B., C.V.O. GUINNESS, CAPTAIN HON. RUPERT E. C., C.B., C.M.G., M.P., R.N.V.R., AD. C. KENYON, SIR FREDERIC G., K.C.B., D.Litt., F.B.A. LEYLAND, JOHN MARSDEN, R. G. MILFORD HAVEN, ADMIRAL THE MARQUESS OF, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., LL.D., AD. C. MURRAY, JOHN, C.V.O. NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY OTTLEY, REAR-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES L., K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O. PARRY, SIR C. HUBERT, BT., C.V.O. POLLEN, ARTHUR H. RICHMOND, CAPTAIN HERBERT W., R.N. ROBINSON, COMMANDER CHARLES N., R.N. SANDERSON, LORD, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., I.S.O. SLADE, ADMIRAL SIR EDMOND J. W., K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O. SMITH, COMMODORE AUBREY C. H., M.V.O., R.N. TANNER, J. R., Litt.D. SECRETARY LIEUT.-COLONEL W. G. PERRIN, O.B.E., R.A.F., Admiralty, S.W. HON. TREASURER SIR W. GRAHAM GREENE, K.C.B., Ministry of Munitions, S.W.