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THE FUTURE OF THE ROYAL NAVY IS AT STAKE.

The Russian admiral Pavel Nakhimov has sunk the entire Turkish fleet and laid waste to half the town of Sinop. Retired British admiral Corrie Harriman is eager to teach Nakhimov a lesson, but it has become known at the Admiralty that Corrie, while dressed as a man, is in fact a woman. In the public eye war is for men only,so the Admiralty will not be calling on Corrie to serve. Undeterred, Corrie decides to steal Britain’s newest and most powerful steam warship HMS Majestic from Chatham Dockyard and to give the order ‘Full steam ahead!’


PRAISE FOR ‘FULL STEAM AHEAD!’

‘I wish Miss Nightingale and the ladies would tell these poor noble, wounded and sick men that no one takes a warmer interest or feels more for their sufferings or admires their courage more than their Queen.’

-- Letter from Queen Victoria read aloud to the wounded after the war

‘It is a very feeling letter,’ said the patients.

‘If steamships were unpopular with the officers, they were far from so with the ratings, who saw in them relief from much of the drudgery of service in sail.’

-- Geoffrey Penn, Up Funnel, Down Screw!

‘Whoso doth the breeches wear lives a life as free as air.’

-- French proverb

On the Cover: John J. Lee’s painting ‘Sweethearts and Wives’ depicting members of the crew of the steam warship HMS Majestic.