The Royal Navy (1907) (14589573078)

Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ortion of theEmpire where the services of the Navy wererequisitioned was in the Malay Peninsula. Thenative Sultan of Perak had attacked the Britishresidency, tore down the Union flag, and murderedMr Birch, the resident. A corvette and threegunboats from the China station were soon on thescene, and in November 1875 a Naval Brigade waslanded to co-operate with the small force of troopsthat had been sent up from Singapore. If the fighting was not of the severest, theclimatic and geographical conditions that ruledwere of the most trying. There was much riverwork in muddy streams in which oars were almostuseless, and the heavily-laden boats had to be poledfor days under a broiling sun and through a steam-ing, malaria-reeking jungle, very often against acurrent running at four knots an hour. Fresh foodwas very scarce; it rained unceasingly, and landmarches had often to be made through marsheswhere the men sank waist deep in mud and AN EARLY TYPE OF SEAGOING TURRET SHIP,H.M.S. THUNDERER 1877
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NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 259 water. The campaign was, nevertheless, carriedthrough to a completely successful conclusion.The Sultan Ismail was attacked and defeated withheavy loss, and for weeks harried through thejungle until he surrendered, in March 1876, andwas sent as a prisoner to Singapore. To quotefrom the despatches: The rapidity of the suc-cesses of the various expeditions was owing mainlyto the special and professional aid given by theNaval Brigade as rocket and gun parties, and infitting and managing the country boats, whichalone could be used. Scarcely a year after the Perak expedition theNavy was again employed ashore, and for severalyears Naval Brigades participated in the fightingthat took place in South Africa between the years1877 and 1881. In the campaign against theGealikas and Gaikas, 1877-8, small Naval Brigadeswith rocket-tubes and guns accompanied eachcolumn, and the Active, flying the broad pennantof Commodore Sullivan, steamed along the coastand maintained comm