The Brother-Middies and Slavers,Ahoi! — Brian Smith

The brothers Hugh and Ernest join the Royal Navy as midshipmen. When one of them is dismissed from the navy, a tragedy unfolds that tears the brothers apart into far-flung parts of the world.Slavers, ahoi! The dastardly slave traders bring their cargo of desperate wretches across the ocean. But the Royal Navy is engaged in the Battle against Slavery!Arthur Lee Knight (1852 - 7 Jul 1944) was a popular author of adventure books in the late 19th and early 20th century. Around 1868 he joined the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen as a junior midshipman, where he served on the 51-gun screw frigate HMS Forte.Having been a midshipman in the navy he was familiar with life in the navy and many of the episodes in his novels - such as hunting Arab slave traders - are clearly events he experienced himself and give unique insight into the world and people in the Victorian age. His readable and often racy stories are characterized by authentic navy language of the time and evocative descriptions of seascapes, distant countries and unusual people.