Show POOR REWARD FOR SERVICES reprimand only thanks english sailor got for Ex extending domains of the british empire eighty years ngo ago at li little boy named moresby went vant to sn seii in one of queen Victor victorias ins ship s 87 as a midshipman thirty yearn afterwards lie was a claval captain in command of it 11 milli and lie he was sai llna oi oft new guinea la Is to tile the n north r of the ile continent of australla australia L i As lie he had else to do lie did some f and before long IP he descove discovered red us I 1 ns as islands that bad not before been on lie char charted teti SOO fall mila ct of coastline coast line previously unknown ah and lie annexed part of new guinea to the brill it empire all the reward ti hb got was a reprimand from the adial admiralty ralty which whar h said he ought not to imp have done it but as they did not think lie he meant to do it the would say my no more about it the ext explorer borer ha lias now died an admiral at the age sot ninety two and before lie he died ile he did win some recognition of the service lie he had done lie ile was the only callor in the british navy who ever had a ship named after him in ills his lifetime the destroyer torpedoed a battle Alp at al the battle ot of jutland and also sunk sank a submarine |