Frank Mildmay

An early pioneer of the sea story, Captain Frederick Marryat devoted many of his works to fictional descriptions of his real-life naval experience. Marryat’s “Frank Mildmay”, of his first nautical novels, is acknowledged to be Classics of Nautical Fiction. Giving a detailed view of the Royal Navy in the early nineteenth century, it is remarkable for its authenticity.
The story is narrated by protagonist Frank Mildmay, whose rapid carrier in the ranks of the early 19th-century Royal Navy followed