Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

by Lord Thomas COCHRANE (1775 - 1860)

Appendices 18 to 20

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most obviously on some of the novels by Patrick O'Brian. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson