Charles Christopher Lloyd (1906 1986), was born in India andwas a British naval historian, who served as Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 19621966. In 1930, Lloyd received his first academic appointment at Bishop"s University, Quebec, Canada and remained there until 1934, when he was appointed to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. In 1945, he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, where he rose to be Professor of History from 1962 until his retirement in 1967. He served as editor of The Mariner"s Mirror, the Journal of the Society for Nautical Research from 1970-1979. "This book", states Lloyd, "aims at giving an account of those who used the sea in the days of sail from the earliest times to the eighteen-sixties, when the establishment of continuous service and of naval reserve, together with the introduction of steam, fundamentally altered conditions in both the naval and merchant services"Definitive & SCARCE reference on lower deck service. Very little has appeared in print about the British seaman, without whom there would have been neither merchant ships to sail, nor men-of-war to command. Apart from vague ideas about the press gang and the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore most people have little conception of what his life was like, even in such important matters as how he was recruited, paid or fed. his courage, his seamanship, his endurance have always been taken for granted. 319pp. with 3 appendices, reference notes, general index, and index of ships. 20 B/W photos. Ex. lib.