Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon 's previous books.
Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to lifelong exile in distant lands.
Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nauti.
Pen And Sword History Children at sea: lives shaped by the waves, paperback/vyvyen brendon
