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THE SURGEON OF THE FLEET. Cadwallader Cuticle, M. D., and Honorary Member of the most distinguished Colleges of Surgeons both in Europe and America, was our Surgeon of the Fleet. Nor was he at all bl…
A CONSULTATION OF MAN-OF-WAR SURGEONS. It seems customary for the Surgeon of the Fleet, when any important operation in his department is on the anvil, and there is nothing to absorb professional att…
THE OPERATION. Next morning, at the appointed hour, the surgeons arrived in a body. They were accompanied by their juniors, young men ranging in age from nineteen years to thirty. Like the senior sur…
MAN-OF-WAR TROPHIES. When the second cutter pulled about among the ships, dropping the surgeons aboard the American men-of-war here and there—as a pilot-boat distributes her pilots at the mouth of th…
A MAN-OF-WAR RACE. We lay in Rio so long—for what reason the Commodore only knows—that a saying went abroad among the impatient sailors that our frigate would at last ground on the beef-bones daily t…
FUN IN A MAN-OF-WAR. After the race (our man-of-war Derby) we had many days fine weather, during which we continued running before the Trades toward the north. Exhilarated by the thought of being hom…
WHITE-JACKET ARRAIGNED AT THE MAST. When with five hundred others I made one of the compelled spectators at the scourging of poor Rose-water, I little thought what Fate had ordained for myself the ne…
A MAN-OF-WAR FOUNTAIN, AND OTHER THINGS. Let us forget the scourge and the gangway a while, and jot down in our memories a few little things pertaining to our man-of-war world. I let nothing slip, ho…
PRAYERS AT THE GUNS. The training-days, or general quarters, now and then taking place in our frigate, have already been described, also the Sunday devotions on the half-deck; but nothing has yet bee…
MONTHLY MUSTER ROUND THE CAPSTAN. Besides general quarters, and the regular morning and evening quarters for prayers on board the Neversink, on the first Sunday of every month we had a grand “ muster…
