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Title: The Three Lieutenants

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Illustrator: Archibald Webb

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21396]

Language: English

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

The Three Lieutenants, Life in the Royal Navy in the 1860s, by W.H.G.
Kingston.

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This is the second in Kingston's tetralogy that begins with The Three
Midshipmen, and ends with The Three Admirals. These books were among
the first written by Kingston, and were published serially in weekly
magazines. Kingston's reputation was made by these books, that first
appeared about 1860, and dealt with an officer's life in the Navy at
about that time.

By an extraordinary co-incidence, the three young men who had met as
midshipmen, get postings that enable them to keep their friendships live
when they are lieutenants. Another old friend is Admiral Triton, who,
though retired, takes a great an interest in the careers of the young
men.

This is actually quite a long book, but it is full of adventures, and
you will love it.

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THE THREE LIEUTENANTS, LIFE IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE 1860s, BY W.H.G.
KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

LIEUTENANT JACK ROGERS AT HOME--HIS BROTHER TOM RESOLVES TO FOLLOW IN
HIS WAKE--HIS OLD SHIPMATES DISCUSSED--LETTER FROM TERENCE ADAIR
DESCRIPTIVE OF HIS FAMILY--ADMIRAL TRITON PLEADS TOM'S CAUSE--THE
ADMIRAL'S ADVICE TO TOM--LEAVING HOME.

"Really, Jack, that uniform is excessively becoming. Do oblige us by
standing up as if you were on the quarter-deck of your ship and hailing
the main-top. I do not remember ever having seen a naval officer above
the rank of a midshipman in uniform before. Do you, Lucy?"

"Only once, at a Twelfth-night party at Foxica, to which you did not go,
when Lady Darlington persuaded Admiral Triton to rig himself out, as he
called it, for our amusement, in a naval suit of the time of Benbow,
belonging