Sadism, Songs and Stolen Liberty

Stephen Mann was in the British Royal Navy for five years and ninety three days, which is five years and ninety two days longer than he had wanted to be.
The day he joined the Navy he didn’t know it but he was to become a reluctant sailor. It was the day after he signed up that the penny dropped and he wondered what he had let himself in for. Despite the fact that he was only fifteen years old he had been allowed to sign up for twelve years which the Ministry of Defence had stipulated was th...