title: A Sailor's Log: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life (CLASSICS OF NAVAL LITERATURE)
author:  Robley D. Evans 
description: This memoir, first published in 1901, is one of very few available accounts of admirals of the new steel navy.
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  # Some Naval Yarns
  
  
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  ### Mordaunt Hall
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  * PREFACE
  
  
  * I. THE LOG OF A NAVAL AIRMAN
  
  
  * II. OVER THE NORTH SEA IN A SEAPLANE
  
  
  * III. ADVENTURES IN A SEAPLANE
  
  
  * IV. SWEEPING THE SEAS FOR MINES
  
  
  * V. THE ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION
  
  
  * VI. A NAVAL SCHOOL
  
  
  * VII. “GENTLEMEN, 'THE KING'“
  
  
  * VIII. THE ROYAL NAVAL AMBULANCE TRAIN
  
  
  * IX. A RUN IN A ROYAL NAVAL AMBULANCE TRAIN
  
  
  * X. A TRIP IN A SUBMARINE
  
  
  * XI. LIFE IN A LIGHTHOUSE
  
  
  * XII. WATCHERS OF THE COAST
  
  
  * XIII. CROSSING THE CHANNEL IN WAR TIME
  
  
  
  
  
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  SOME NAVAL
  
  
    
  YARNS
  
  
    
  BY
  
  
    
  MORDAUNT HALL
  
  
    
  WITH A PREFACE BY
  
  
    
  LADY BEATTY
  
  
    
  
  
    
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