Excerpt from Peeps at the Royal Navy IT is upon the Navy that, under the good providence of God, the wealth, prosperity, and the peace of these Islands and of the Empire do mainly depend. 80 runs a sentence in the Articles of War carried on board every warship of the British Fleet. And the purpose of this little book is to try to Show you how true that sentence has been and is, and how, bit by bit, through many hundreds of years, the rulers and the people of these islands have been coming more and more to understand its truth, and to see that at all costs our Navy must be kept up to such strength as shall make it impossible for any enemy to attack us with any hope of success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.