Killigrew’s Run

by Killigrew's Run (retail) (epub)

  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

  This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by

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  ISBN 9781911591900

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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