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Nautical Standard (Newspaper) - February 5, 1853, London, Middlesex AND STEAM NAVIGATION ENGLAND'S BEST BULWARKS ARE WOODEN Vol. 6.] FEBRUARY 5, 1853. 6d. Editorial the Prospects 81 - Navy of the Board of Admiralty 82 Our Marine Policy 83 84 Coast Guard 84 85 86 West and North America 88 Royal 87 87 87 Obituary 87 The Reserve Steam 87 Coast Defences 87 The Royal Geographical 88 Institution of Civil 88 Hospital Society the 89 The Caloric Ship 89 TO Persons desirous of receiving the Nautical Standard are respectfully informed that it may be obtained through all news or forwarded direct from the Office by the Saturday Morning on payment of- Per quarter 0 6 6 Per 0 13 0 Per year 1 6 0 All Orders for 6s., annual subscription payable in should be made payable to Mr. Horatio at the General St. Feb. 7, 1813. The 38-gun frigate mounting 48 Capt. the Hon. Paul off the northern end of on the coast of sustained action the Commodore mounting 44 After a close engagement from 7h. 45m. p.m. until 20m. p.m. the combatants gradually receded from the The out of 349 had 4 1 lieutenant of and 46 men Capt. Irby severely and 89 The Arethuse is stated to have lost 31 74 1805. The French 16-gun brig Dame captured off Barbadoes by 16-gun brig Capt. E. B. after an action of 40 and the loss of 30 40 out of a crew of 120 out of a crew of 67, had 6 3 1808. Three boats of 36-gun frigate under Lieut. G. attacked the polacca privateer anchored near San Jago de and having carried she was brought without sustaining any - 8, 1809. Boats of 32, under Lieut. C. R. attacked an armed mounting 6 and a lying in a small creek in the island of although protected by a large body of both vessels were and two warehouses 1813. American schooner of 6 and 28 lying in after a sharp by boats of and with loss of 19 1 3 1746. French 50-gun ship captured in the Channel by 50, Capt. after a sharp in which the Auguste was totally and had 50 94 whilst the Portland had only 3 13 1799. French 36-gun frigate captured off Cape on the South East Coast of by 32, Capt. H. L. after an action of 50 and the loss of 27 22 2 12 10, 1809. French 40-gun frigate captured off the Virgin after a long by Horatio and Latona and Superior after a gallant and the loss of 130 in killed and 7 26 6 and 1 - 11, 1744. The combined fleet of France and consisting of 28 including 3 of 50 under Admirals De Court and attacked near by Admiral with 29 exclusive of 05-gun The action lasted from p.m. until The Spanish 74, was the only ship The loss of the British fell principally upon the 74, Captain with 42 men and was 120 Mercantile Steam 90 Peninsular and Oriental 9ft British and North American 90 Royal West India Mail 90 American Royal Mail Steam Packet 91 Reduction of the French Navy 91 Ocean Surveying 91 Foreign and Colonial Intelligence 92 France 92 Law Intelligence 93 Admiralty Court 93< Investigations in the Chinese Seas 94 Original 94 Warrant Widows 94 Lamentations of the Steam Engine 94 Notices to 95 and 95 Advertisements 96 Statical ROYAL commands the commands the whosoever commands the trade op the commands the Treasures of the and consequently the World W. FEBRUARY 5, 1853. MANNING THE NAVY - NAVAL If during the history of these the destiny of the Royal Navy was clouded by singular it is at the present It may be fairly that all is in a condition of but where the limit of change may be is a question which time and the circumstances which are yet unborn can alone At the close of the late we arrived at a point which the greatest epoch of our Naval Successive Naval Administrations had done all in their power to mar the spirit and energies of the men to whom was finally intrusted the safety and salvation of the Our ships were notoriously unequal to the struggle in which they had to and the means of producing others were entirely and at a time when the demands of the country became daily more and when nothing short of miracle seemed sufficient to ward off the misfortunes which threatened us on all But a righteous cause and Providence brought us in the hour of need a ready help in our trouble the and courage of a formed the centre of as bright a galaxy of great names as ever rose above the horizon of an heroic age all that we It is true our ships were worn out and is - 12, 1811. Boats of Active and under Lieut. James attacked some vessels in the harbour of and in spite of a heavy carried a of 6 captured 10 other vessels and destroyed the store with no greater loss 4 men also true that they had been made the receptacles of and the very refuse and cesspool of a corrupt yet was there left enough of salt to correct the fermenting and our in spite of all that was arrayed against internally and secured for us a throne upon the waters which nothing but our own fault can ever hereafter snatch from But with the leisure of peace came the reaction which ever follows in the wake of a condition of extreme Our civil establishments connected with the Navy were found to consist of a barbarous collection of antiquated Hence there was no lack of excuse for and a thousand reformers sprang up to reap the rich harvest which hung luxuriantly in the and waited only for the husbandman to come and reap it. is not always a bona fide deity it is too often a mere and the greatest and not unfrequently the grossest acts of injustice are perpetrated in its Where real reform was suggested by the experience of the little was done to propitiate and in 1830, when a Reform Parliament and reforming Ministry ruled the councils of the everything was changed but little was actually and the Navy at the present time groans under most of the evils which marred its energies during the and which have never ceased to find a voice since that amongst the hundreds of brave fellows who survived the day of only to struggle with official contumely and national Since gun was fired against an enemy's the art of naval warfare has changed its Civilization and the arts of life have made the most rapid and as a matter of a share of human ingenuity has devoted itself to improving the art of and the general appliances of military All is changed as regards the wants and means of an effective fleet at the present but no progressive improvement has been applied by our reformers in that Although the requirements of a seaman at the present day are more numerous

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