. Reminiscences of the Baltic fleet of 1855 . °^fe °*2k& G±3k*> °±&pt °±M$ 0±3f> Srj&g 6^$p ~*§g|F cfj^ c*3)fF ^* g|F t*Ji^J ^* gt^ evq&^ c* ]p CONTENTS CHAPTER , ----- CHAPTER II. Portsmouth, - CHAPTER the Fleet, - CHAPTER IV. Life on the Duke, CHAPTER V. Routine of a War Ship, - CHAPTER , - - - - CHAPTER VII. Rendezvous at Kiel, CHAPTER VIII Revel and Nargen, - CHAPTER IX. Cronstadt, - CHAPTER X. Infernal Machines, - - - - CHAPTER against Sweaborg, 9-1516-2122-3031-3637-4142-4950-5657-6465-7273-8182-94 CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER XII. Bomb
. Reminiscences of the Baltic fleet of 1855 . °^fe °*2k& G±3k*> °±&pt °±M$ 0±3f> Srj&g 6^$p ~*§g|F cfj^ c*3)fF ^* g|F t*Ji^J ^* gt^ evq&^ c* ]p CONTENTS CHAPTER , ----- CHAPTER II. Portsmouth, - CHAPTER the Fleet, - CHAPTER IV. Life on the Duke, CHAPTER V. Routine of a War Ship, - CHAPTER , - - - - CHAPTER VII. Rendezvous at Kiel, CHAPTER VIII Revel and Nargen, - CHAPTER IX. Cronstadt, - CHAPTER X. Infernal Machines, - - - - CHAPTER against Sweaborg, 9-1516-2122-3031-3637-4142-4950-5657-6465-7273-8182-94 CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER XII. Bombardment of Sweaborg, - 95-105 CHAPTER XIII. Post Bombardment, -106-114 CHAPTER XIV. Homevrard Bound, -115-121 APPENDIX. Some of our Baltic Gun Room Songs, -123-129 Index, ------- -131-138. Reminiscences of the BalticFleet of 1855. ^ CHAPTER r JAf, VOLUNTEERING. HE Baltic Fleet, which, under Admiral SirRichard Dundas, assembled at Spithead inMarch 1855, was, in many respects, much*f* stronger, better maimed, and more thoroughlyequipped than that of 1854, under Sir CharlesNapier. It had, especially, many more small craft—particularly gun and mortar boats—requiring arelatively larger complement of officers and men ;notably of medical officers. But of the latter,as in wars before and since, afloat and ashorethere was a serious deficiency. It was at the time simply impossible to get asufficient number of fully qualified young medicalmen for the navy ; for Turkey and the Crimea hadalready absorbed all those available. The Govern-ment, therefore, in order to provide medical aidfor the numerous vessels of the Baltic Fleet, had B 10 REMINISCENCES OF THE resort, as in the wars with France during theearly part of the century, to the temporaryemployment of medical students of a
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