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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter X?Q. retired as captain R.N.; received the honour of knighthood, and awarded A greenwich pension, 1867-78. Application for pension--Elected to committee Merchant Seamen's _ Orphan Asylum--Elected member of the council of the Royal Naval School--St. Paul's on Thanksgiving Day--Publish pamphlet on "Changes in the Royal Navy"--I am knighted at Windsor--Mr. Gladstone--Congratulatory letters--Propose a star pier at Calais--Awarded a Greenwich pension--Elected to the committee of the Royal Naval Female School--Mont Cenis tunnel---Inspect the lighthouse at Swanage on the site I had suggested--The Prince of Wales--Mr. and Mrs. Brassey--Interview with Mrs. Girling--Trip to the Continent, Mediterranean, and Egypt--At Palermo again--The Suez Canal--Received by the Khedive--Revisiting old scenes: Scio, Smyrna, Corfu--Home again--Conclusion. On retiring from Woolwich I applied to the Admiralty for a pension, and my application was supported by Admirals Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Thomas M. C. Symonds, Sir Ducie Chads, and Sir Robert Smart, with all of whom I had served. I finally left Woolwich Dockyard in January, 1868, and took up my residence in Granville Park, Blackheath. Unfortunately, the small-pox, 1868-70. Seamen's Orphan Asylum. 291 contracted no doubt at Woolwich, laid me up for some time; and, on recovering from it, and on going to Dorsetshire, I took a chill whilst waiting at a railway-station in the July following, from which a fever resulted, and for days my life was despaired of. When my health was, I am thankful to say, fully restored, I received many invitations from public bodies in London (amongst them from the Merchant Tay