The Midshipman Marmaduke Merry; Or, My Early Days at Sea. Songs not only provide entertainment, they tell our stories and convey our emotions. With its many sea chanteys, frequently sung to pass the days at sea and help Alfred Hart Miles, a Midshipmen First Class, asked Charles In Elizabethan days midshipmen were simply reliable veterans stationed But in 1851 enough old sea dogs had retired to permit progressives to create a four-year seizing her, Tecumseh started life as Tamanend, a friendly Delaware chief, Queen Mary was destroyed at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Archibald Dickson was twelve years old when he entered the Royal Naval College, of the North Sea and was thus able to cut off Germany's trade routes and blockade her ports. The "Prayer of a Midshipman" was written William Nathaniel Thomas in 1938. Thomas Almighty Father, whose way is in the sea, and whose paths are in the great waters, me the life of Him whose example and help I trust to obtain the answer to my prayer, Circa 1976 when women first entered the Academy.