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C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., etc.
In acceding to the request to write a Preface for this volume I am
moved by the paramount need that all the budding citizens of our great
Empire should be thoroughly acquainted with the part the Navy has
played in building up the greatest empire the world has ever seen.
Colonel Wood has endeavored to make plain, in a stirring and attractive
manner, the value of Britain's Sea-Power. To read his _Flag and Fleet_
will ensure that the lessons of centuries of war will be learnt, and
that the most important lesson of them all is this--that, as an empire,
we came into being by the Sea, and that we cannot exist without the Sea.
DAVID BEATTY,
2nd of June, 1919.


INTRODUCTION
Who wants to be a raw recruit for life, all thumbs and
muddle-mindedness? Well, that is what a boy or girl is bound to be
when he or she grows up without knowing what the Royal Navy of our
Motherland has done to give the British Empire birth, life, and growth,
and all the freedom of the sea.
The Navy is not the whole of British sea-power; for the Merchant
Service is the other half.


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