Excerpt from Famous Ships of the British Navy, or Stories of Enterprise and Daring: Collected From Our Naval Chronicles IN the following pages are condensed the histories of some of those famous Ships which, commanded by gallant officers and manned by hearts of oak, have done so much to illustrate the annals and perpetuate the fame of the British Navy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.