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Band of Brothers is a history of the boy seaman rating in the Royal Navy, beginning with its evolution from the 18th century Officer's Servant through to its abolition in 1956. It tells of an astonishing Victorian Naval tradition which continued right into the modern age. HMS Ganges, a byword on the lower deck of the Royal Navy for strict discipline, was the hardest of the boy seaman training establishments, and was widely regarded as the archetype. The Royal Navy throughout those years was a supremely conservative and traditionalist institution, and particularly in its attitude to and treatment of lower deck people, the boys in particular. Drawing on his own detailed diaries, the author recreates daily life ashore and afloat, in peace and war. Recruitment, food and clothing, training, discipline and punishment are all recorded, and supported by the personal accounts of boy seamen who went on to serve in the Royal Navy as men.

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David Phillipson enlisted in the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in 1946 and trained at HMS. Ganges. He served in the Royal Navy for 11 years.

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