Excerpt from The Fleet From Within: Being the Impressions of A R. N. V. R. Officer I AM not concerned in this work with the strategical aspect of the greatest Navy in the world. That has already been dealt with by experts. Rather do I wish in these impressions to present to the public a phase of the Citizen Navy at war which has been hitherto overlooked. I refer to the human phase. It seems to have been forgotten that the Great War produced a new Navy as well as a new Army, and it is the atmo sphere consequent upon the new order of things that I have striven to represent in these pages. 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.