"ADMIRAL MIKE THE FOURTH."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

"ADMIRAL MIKE THE FOURTH."

AN AMAZING NAVAL RECORD The motto of the famuy of the nevt rear-admiral, Captain Michael Culino Seymour, m'ght well be "Admirals All," for it has produced distinguished sailors since England had a Navy. On.? of his ancestors, Lord Henry, helped to defeat the Armada as an admiral fighting with Drake. The new rear-admiral will be known in the Navy as "Admiral Miko tin Fourth," the three previous Admiral "Mikes" being his father, Sir Mich a"! Culme-Seymour; his great-uncle, Sir Michael, a G.C.ts., one-time Command er-in-Clvef at Plymouth; and Sir Michael, the first baronet, who won Ins title for gallantry <,lien, m command of tho thirty-six-gun frigate Amethyst in 1809 he captured in succession the forty-gun frigates Thetis and Nicmcn after a terrific fight. An exciting and varied career was that of Rear-Admiarl Culme-Seymour's Ocean Beau/' 011 account of his ga'father, who used to be called "The lan try and good looks. He fought n Burma, in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and in the Naval Brigade in the Crimea, and in China, side by side with his cousin, Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, who retired from the active list a few years ago. It is doubtful whether any admiral over had wider or more varied experiences than Sir Edward, whose book, "My Naval Career and Travels," provides an absorbing story. Hs fiftyeight years' naval experremve begin during the Crimean War, in conectin 1 with which he can clann association with the introduction of two important new features of tho century in sei warfare. The paddlo frigate Terrible, in which he served as a middy, was the first British steam warship, and at the bombardment of the Kinburn batteries armored floating batteries were used for th,e first time. The service which made Sir Edward's name most familiar Was the Relief Expedition to Peking during the Boxer Rising in 1900. It was then that he organised a column of 7.000 men, 01 whom only 900 we no British, and with th's litle army he marcned along tinrailway from Tientsin and effected Ms •object.