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FRANK BROWN
SEA APPRENTICE

Frank flung all his weight on the lee side of the wheel.

TO
MY DEARLY LOVED FRIEND
The Rev. GUSTAVUS BOSANQUET
THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED

In order to make it plain to my readers that thefollowing pages may be read without danger ofacquiring false information about the sea, or theways of its servants, I beg to say that every incidentrecorded is fact, either well authenticated byothers, or personal experience of my own. Aboutthe merits of the story I can, of course, say nothing,but I assure my readers of the accuracy of thedetails and information herein contained. I havenaturally used the incidents to make a story, andgiven fictitious names of ships, places, and people.And I am not without hope that the reading of thisbook may be quite profitable to parents of boyswishing to go to sea, as well as pleasurable to theboys themselves.

FRANK T. BULLEN.

R.M.S. Omrah,
At Sea in the Great Australian Bight,
Easter Sunday 1906.

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