Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — Royalty Before the Mast, [ARTICLE]

Royalty Before the Mast,

New York Times. The cable reports that a rumor is current in London of a mutiny on board the man-of-war Bacchante. This is the corvette in which the two eldest sons of. the Prince and Princess of Wales set sail a few days back on their voyage around the world. The young Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward is now fifteen years old; his brother, the Prince George Federick Ernest Albert, is a year younger, and both have served their primary course as cadets in the training ship Britannia at Dartmouth. What Aldershot is to the English soldier, such is Portsmouth to the British sailor; and so it was that the young sailor Princes waved their farewells to their royal parents and to old England from the_jetty of Portsmouth dock yard. The Bacchante, under command of Capt. Lord Charles Scott, sailed for Madeira, on a cruise to last eighteen months or more. The Princes were expected to do their full share of duty, and to sing, “A wet sheet and a flowing sea, a wind that follows fast, and fills the white and rustling sail, and bends the gallant mast,” as many thousands of brave tan had merrily song before them. The Bacchante so far resembles the old familiar type of battle ship in that she carries her armament upon the broadside principle. Of her sixteen guns, lourteen are mounted in the broadside battery, the other two being pivot weapons, and all are fired by electricity. On the upper deck there are two shot proof towers, whenoe the firing of the guns may be conducted, and where the officer in charge can better judge of his opportunity to fire than. Of the rumored mutiny do details have yet been received.