ABSTRACT
The seaman of the Napoleonic Wars lived a life that was so divorced from the land that it was not possible to mistake him. In physique, in his outlook upon life, in his clothes and even in his very speech he was unmistakable. In the technique of his craft the sailor who had voyaged with Hawkins and Drake would have found no difficulty aboard an East Indiaman. Indeed, he would have found little to worry him in the handling of a twentieth century four-masted barque; and it was not until the middle of the Victorian era that the man-of-warsman differed in any way from the merchant seaman.
