Excerpt from Scapegrace at Sea, Vol. 1 of 3: Or, Soldiers Afloat and Sailors Ashore The Scapegraces were a family of very long standing in the navy; ever since the reign of the eighth Henry they had been more or less con spicuous in the sea service, down to our own day. Yet, strange to say, the Assurance Offices would hardly have termed them a long lived'f family. 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.