The first edition of this book is dated 1836. The edition used is dated 1896. The publisher was Richard Edward King, 88 Curtain Road, London E.C. The number of pages is 249.

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General information

Captain Frederick Marryat was born July 10 1792, and died August 8 1848. He retired from the British navy in 1828 in order to devote himself to writing. In the following 20 years he wrote 26 books, many of which are among the very best of English literature, and some of which are still in print.

Marryat had an extraordinary gift for the invention of episodes in his stories. He says somewhere that when he sat down for the day’s work, he never knew what he was going to write. He certainly was a literary genius.

“The Three Cutters” was published in 1836, the tenth book to flow from Marryat’s pen.

This e-book was transcribed in 1998 by Nick Hodson, and was re- formatted in 2003, and again in 2005.

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Contents

Chapter I.
Cutter the First.

Chapter II.
Cutter the Second.

Chapter III.
Cutter the Third.

Chapter IV.
Portland Bill.

Chapter V.
The Travesty.

Chapter VI.
The Smuggling Yacht.

Chapter VII.
Conclusion.

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