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    Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical...
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  • 1906 Emilia Marryat (1835–1875), English author of children's books Frank Marryat (1826–1855), sailor, artist, and author Frederick Marryat (1792–1848)...
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    Mr Midshipman Easy (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
    1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired captain in the British Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served...
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    Peter Simple (novel) (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
    Peter Simple is an 1834 novel written by Frederick Marryat about a young British midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. It was originally published in...
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  • variations exist such as 1. From the 1840 novel Poor Jack (chapter 4), by Frederick Marryat. Pretty little twinkling star, How I wonder what you are; All above...
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    The Phantom Ship (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
    The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman. The plot concerns the quest of Philip...
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    Percival Keene (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
    coming-of-age adventure novel published in three volumes in 1842 by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the nautical adventures of the title character,...
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    and naval officer Frederick Marryat characterised brigs as having superior windward performance to the schooners of that time. Marryat is considered, by...
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    HMS Imperieuse, formerly the Spanish frigate Medea. One of his midshipmen was Frederick Marryat, who later wrote fictionalised accounts of his adventures with Cochrane...
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    February 2013. The caricature was devised in collaboration with Frederick Marryat (*Captain Marryat). See Temi Odumosu's article in The Slave in European Art:...
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