ADVENTUROUS CAREER.
On Sunday next (said a London paper of November 9) Admiral Sir . Ibort Markham retires from the
naval service, after a long career which has been unusually full of romance and achievement. It was as far back as 1850 that the admiral
entered the navy. In his early davs he was in the thick of the operations in China, carrying the colors at the capture of Slink-Ling. After China, the Mediterranean.
Here lie served on the Victoria—the last three-decker ever employed at sea. 'I hen, on the Australian station, lie became busy with the suppression of the kidnapping of natives from the South Pacific Islands, and was several times attacked by natives in their canoes.
Later Commander Markham, as he then was, joined the Arctic expedition under Sir George Nares, and in bis sledge he reached the highest latitude which had then been attained, S3deg. 20.26inin. N., or within 400 miles of the Pole.
The saddest feature in the admiral’s career was when, as second in command of the .Mediterranean Squadron, his flagship, the Camperdown, rammed and sank the Victoria • —a disaster for which he was in no way responsible. He was made a full admiral in 1903.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1967, 31 December 1906, Page 3
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