Excerpt from The Junior Officer of the Watch I have permission to leave the ship, sir. The last of a group of young officers touched his hat to the officer of the deck as he stepped out in the wake of his fellows, who were trooping through the gang way - opening and running down the steps of the long accommodation-ladder to where the steam launch bobbed up and down on the choppy waves. 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.