Newton Forster or the Merchant Service

Newton Forster or the Merchant Service

Author: Captain Frederick Marryat

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1473393604

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This book contains the thrilling tale of Newton Forster and his adventures after being forced into the Navy. Newton faces non-stop action, from murder and insanity, gangs to pirates, and treachery to romance, this book is bound to keep the reader thrilled from start to finish. This book, written by Frederick Marryat and originally published in 1832, is now being republished here with a new introductory biography. Frederick Marryat was a British Navy officer and Novelist. Notable works include Peter Simple (1834), The Phantom Ship (1839), Poor Jack (1840), Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific (1841) and Settlers in Canada (1844).


Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service

Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service

Author: Frederick Marryat

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13:

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'Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service' is a novel by the British writer Frederick Marryat. Like much of Marryat's work it is a seafaring novel about a young man impressed into the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He is subsequently imprisoned by the French, shipwrecked in the West Indies and makes a success in trading in the East Indies.


Newton Forster

Newton Forster

Author: Frederick Marryat

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-06-18

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9781490489759

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Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service was first published in 1832 . The book tells the story of the Master of a coastal brig in the Royal Navy, his adventures, shipwreck and love interests as well as a fictionalised account of the Battle of Pulo Aura in the Straits of Malacca.The Battle of Pulo Aura was a naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 14 February 1804, in which a large convoy of Honourable East India Company's East Indiamen, well-armed merchant ships, intimidated, drove off and chased a powerful French naval squadron. Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel "Mr Midshipman Easy" and his children's novel "The Children of the New Forest", as well as for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as "Marryat's Code".


Newton Forster, Or, the Merchant Service. by

Newton Forster, Or, the Merchant Service. by

Author: Frederick Marryat

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781533475466

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Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 - 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code Marryat was born in London, the son of Joseph Marryat, a "merchant prince" and member of Parliament, and his American wife Charlotte, nee von Geyer. After trying to run away to sea several times, Marryat was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse, a frigate commanded by Lord Cochrane (who later served as inspiration for both Marryat and other authors). Marryat's time aboard the Imperieuse included action off the Gironde, the rescue of a fellow midshipman who had fallen overboard, captures of many ships off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, and the capture of the castle of Montgat. The Imperieuse shifted to operations in the Scheldt in 1809, where Marryat contracted malaria; he returned to England on the 74-gun HMS Victorious."