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431: 229: 210:, Mr. Frank T. Bullen, who died towards the end of February, was a Fellow of this Society from 1898 until a couple of years ago. A son of Mr. F. R. Bullen, of Crewkerne, Dorset, he led a roving and adventurous life from quite an early age, and many of the most thrilling episodes in his books were records of his own experiences. After various adventures on shore he went to sea in 1869, and for some years roughed it in various capacities in the merchant service, suffering great hardships, as vividly described in 460: 41:
I have been beaten by a negro lad as big again as myself, and only a Frenchman interfered on my behalf. Those were the days when boys in Geordie colliers or East Coast fishing smacks were often beaten to insanity and jumped overboard, or were done to death in truly savage fashion, and all that was
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and other books. He was keenly interested in the bettering the condition and raising the moral tone of our merchant seamen, and many of his books were of a semi-religious character. In his latter years he was known as a successful lecturer and a writer of miscellaneous stories and articles in
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and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9, his aunt, who was his guardian, died. He then left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and travelled to all parts of the world in various capacities including that of second mate of the
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in 1879 when she was dismasted and disabled. Having spent 15 years of his life at sea, since the tender age of 12, he would later describe the hardships of his early life thus:
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necessary to account for their non returning was a line in the log to the effect that they had been washed or had fallen overboard.
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Recollections: the reminiscences of the busy life of one who has played the varied parts of sailor, author & lecturer, 1915
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1891–1893. He was a clerk in the Meteorological Office from 1883 to 1889. His reputation was made over the publication of
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A Bounty Boy: Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an unpremeditated Trip Round the World, 1907
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Harbinger. London. 1506 tons. Built at Greenock. 1876. Frank Bullen was second mate of this ship
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addition to his books. He had lived for some years at Melbourne, near Cambridge.
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With Christ in sailor town; what the seamen's mission is doing, 1901
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John's father, known as Hansford Ward, was nominally in charge of
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Harbinger. London. 1506 tons. Built at Greenock. 1876. Frank Bullen was second mate of this ship
"The Adelaide Steamship Company"
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'A Brief History of Nautical Stories', Rowland Smythe, 1994.
"Mr. Frank Bullen Outspoken"
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"Bullen, Frank Thomas" 
Encyclopædia Britannica
Works by Frank Thomas Bullen
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Works by or about Frank Thomas Bullen
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Free scores by Frank Thomas Bullen
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Works by Frank Thomas Bullen
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