Tom Cringle’s Log

At thirteen, Thomas Cringle is four feet four inches tall, yet he has decided Britain must have a successor to Nelson—and he knows just the admiral to ask.

In the years after Trafalgar, the British Navy seems to young Tom a place of glory, uniforms and grand adventures. Then an Admiralty letter appoints him to the frigate Breeze, bound for foreign service, and sends his mother into tears. Tom’s swagger gives way to a tightening throat and a wrenching farewell; still, he is hurried off to Portsmouth with scarcely time to prepare. His first logbook begins with missing stockings, mouldy biscuit and seasickness—but the sea has rougher lessons in store. What will become of the would-be hero once the Breeze meets its first storm?

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