Thanks also to Sarah Keen for editorial duties; and to Yvonne Holland and Alastair Wilson, whose sharp eyes and keen and capacious minds can always be relied on to keep me from making a fool of myself on an international scale (at least as far as the books go). Any inaccuracies remain the responsibility of the author.
Thanks are also due to the following for inspiration: William Alwyn, G.I. Brown, Stephanie Cole, Graham Crowden, John Debney, Stewart Granger, Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard, Bernard Hill, Trevor Howard, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, James Mason, Bill Nighy, Sergei Prokofiev, Julia Sawalha, and Victor Young.
Glossary
chert!
Russian equivalent of ‘damn’; lit. ‘devil!’
drachevo
bastard
Ekenäs
Swedish name for Tammisaari
Hangö Head
Swedish name for Hanko Head
Helsingfors
name by which Helsinki was known prior to Finnish independence
inzhener
engineer
matros (pl. matrosy)
sailor
michmani
midshipman
mouzhiki!
‘lads!’; literally, ‘peasants!’
nagaika
cossack whip
negr
‘Negro’
papakha
Cossack’s woolly hat
sazhen
unit of measurement equivalent to seven feet
starshina
colonel of Cossacks
telezhka (pl. telezhki)
crude Russian four-wheeled cart without springs, little more than a box on wheels
utka
a waterfowl of the Anatidae family
verst (pl. vehrsty)
unit of measurement equivalent to slightly less than two-thirds of a mile
Commander Christopher I. Killigrew
1824–Born. 1837–Entered the Navy. 1840–Aide-de-Camp to Commodore Charles Napier in Syria. Distinguished himself at St Jean d’Acre. 1842–Served at the capture of Woosung and Shanghae, and in the operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang. Distinguished himself at the storming of Ching-Kiang-Foo, and obtained in consequence his first commission. 1843–Took part in an attack on a large piratical settlement on the Island of Borneo. 1845-7–Active in the oppression of slavery. 1847–Made a Lieutenant. Employed at the destruction of the Owodunni Barracoon. 1849–Actively engaged against the pirates in the South China Sea. 1852-53–Took part in Sir Edward Belcher’s Arctic Searching Expedition. Promoted to Commander in consequence. 1854–Appointed to the Ramillies. Commander Killigrew’s person bears the marks of no less than eight wounds.
Killigrew R.N.
The Guinea Coast, 1847
Killigrew and the Golden Dragon
South China Sea, 1849
Killigrew and the Incorrigibles
The South Seas, 1850
Killigrew and the North-West Passage
The Arctic, 1852–3
Killigrew’s Run
The Baltic, 1854
Killigrew and the Sea Devil
The Gulf of Finland, 1855
First published in the United Kingdom in 2004 by Headline
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