Black Beauty by Charlotte Hough, Anna Sewell

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Isbn:9780552120036
Author:Richard Hough
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Late 1870s. Archie Buller, son of the Third Sea Lord who serves with Queen Victorias grandsons and is assigned to duty aboard the HMS Inflexible. Rod Maclewin, a welders son who joins the Royal Navy to escape poverty, but his training ship Eurydice capsizes near Spithead in a snow squall. Rod is one of only three survivors and is befriended by Commander Lord Charles Beresford, who has him transferred to be coxswain on his gun-vessel Condor. When riots in Alexandria lead to the bombarding of Marabout Fort. Archie and Rod meet ashore and strike a friendship. Years later they meet again fighting side by side in the Boer War.