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“... as soon as he had finished his apprenticeship as a cooper, eager for the chance to visit China. Jacob Nagle, one of the most remarkable of seaman memoirists, emerged into the light only 25 years ago. His career included service under Washington and Nelson; he was also a member of Governor Phillip’s barge crew at the foundation of New South Wales. It ...”

“... world with a different culture and almost a different language. In 1840, when he was 79, Joseph Nagle wrote ‘a sketch of my life’, and by doing so earned himself a place 149 years later in any library that has an interest in Australian history, in life on the lower deck in the Royal Navy, and more generally in the seaman’s lot between 1780 and ...”