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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg/220px-Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg/330px-Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg/440px-Rudyard_Kipling_-_The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet_%28cover%29_-_cleaned.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2888" data-file-height="3905" /></a><figcaption>First booklet publication (<a href="/wiki/Macmillan_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Macmillan & Co.">Macmillan & Co.</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>The Fringes of the Fleet</b></i> is a booklet written in 1915 by <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> (1865–1936). The booklet contains essays and poems about nautical subjects in World War I. </p><p>It is also the title of a song-cycle written in 1917 with music by the English composer <a href="/wiki/Edward_Elgar" title="Edward Elgar">Edward Elgar</a> and lyrics from poems in Kipling's booklet.<sup id="cite_ref-BritishLibrary_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BritishLibrary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kipling's_booklet"><span id="Kipling.27s_booklet"></span>Kipling's booklet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Kipling's booklet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1915 Kipling was commissioned by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> to write a series of six articles on his view of life in less well-known aspects of the defence of the nation on its seas. These were given the general title "The Fringes of the Fleet", and had three sub-titles "The Auxiliaries", "Submarines" and "Patrols", and published between 20 November and 2 December. Each was prefaced by a short poem which did not have a title itself. </p><p>Immediately afterwards the poems and essays were re-published in a booklet called "The Fringes of the Fleet".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1. The Auxiliaries – I</li></ul> <dl><dd>The text opens with a poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lowestoft_Boat" title="The Lowestoft Boat">The Lowestoft Boat</a></i> which starts with the words <i>"In <a href="/wiki/Lowestoft" title="Lowestoft">Lowestoft</a> a boat was laid, / Mark well what I do say!"</i>, later given the title <i>"The Lowestoft Boat"</i> and a subtitle <i>"(East Coast Patrols of the War)"</i>.</dd></dl> <ul><li>2. The Auxiliaries – II</li></ul> <dl><dd>The text opens with a poem which starts <i>"Dawn off the Foreland<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – the young flood making / Jumbled and short and steep – "</i>, later titled <i>"Mine Sweepers"</i>.</dd></dl> <ul><li>3. Submarines – I</li></ul> <dl><dd>The text opens with a poem which resembles the shanty <i>"Farewell and adieu to you, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Ladies" title="Spanish Ladies">Spanish Ladies</a>"</i>. The original and final title, <i>"<a href="/wiki/Harwich" title="Harwich">Harwich</a> Ladies"</i>, was for security reasons at the time changed to <i>"<a href="/wiki/Greenwich" title="Greenwich">Greenwich</a> Ladies"</i>.</dd></dl> <ul><li>4. Submarines – II</li></ul> <dl><dd>The text opens with a very short poem (two verses of four lines) titled <i>"<a href="/wiki/Tin_Fish_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tin Fish (poem)">Tin Fish</a>"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poem starts <i>"The ships destroy us above / And ensnare us beneath."</i></dd></dl> <ul><li>5. Patrols – I</li></ul> <dl><dd>The text opens with a poem entitled <i>"<a href="/wiki/A_Song_in_Storm" title="A Song in Storm">A Song in Storm</a>"</i>, which starts with the words <i>"Be well assured that on our side / Our challenged oceans fight.</i>"</dd></dl> <ul><li>6. Patrols – II</li></ul> <dl><dd>The final article begins with a poem later called <i>"The North Sea Patrol"</i>.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elgar's_songs"><span id="Elgar.27s_songs"></span>Elgar's songs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Elgar's songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 1916 <a href="/wiki/Lord_Charles_Beresford" title="Lord Charles Beresford">Lord Charles Beresford</a> requested Elgar to make songs of some of the verses in Kipling's booklet: Elgar chose four of them, and appropriately set them for four men's voices.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elgar gave different titles to three of the four poems </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/The_Lowestoft_Boat" title="The Lowestoft Boat">The Lowestoft Boat</a></b> used the words of the poem of the same name</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/A_Song_in_Storm" title="A Song in Storm">Fate's Discourtesy</a></b> – the poem <i>"A Song in Storm"</i>. The words "Fate's discourtesy" appear in the refrain to all three verses. <a href="/wiki/Edward_German" title="Edward German">Edward German</a> set the same poem to music for voice and piano in 1916, giving it the title of the first phrase <i>"Be well assured"</i>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Submarines_(poem)" title="Submarines (poem)">Submarines</a></b> – the poem <i>"Tin Fish"</i>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/The_Sweepers_(poem)" title="The Sweepers (poem)">The Sweepers</a></b>, – the poem <i>"<a href="/wiki/Minesweeper_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minesweeper (ship)">Mine Sweepers</a>"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The work was dedicated by the composer "...to my friend Admiral Lord Beresford". The first performance was, at Elgar's suggestion, part of a wartime variety show at the <a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">London Coliseum</a> on 11 June 1917, and the singers were baritones <a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Mott" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles James Mott">Charles Mott</a> (following his performance in <i>"<a href="/wiki/The_Starlight_Express" title="The Starlight Express">The Starlight Express</a>"</i>), <a href="/wiki/Harry_Barratt" title="Harry Barratt">Harry Barratt</a>, Frederick Henry and Frederick Stewart. The show ran for four weeks with two performances a day and was a great success. In the production the curtain rose on a seaport scene, outside a public house, with the four singers in rough-and-ready merchant-seamen's clothes, seated around a table.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>"<b><a href="/wiki/Inside_the_Bar" title="Inside the Bar">Inside the Bar</a></b>"</li></ul> <p>The song <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_the_Bar" title="Inside the Bar">Inside the Bar</a></i>, with words by Sir <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Parker" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert Parker">Gilbert Parker</a>, was subsequently added to the cycle and performed by the same singers at the same theatre exactly two weeks later. The songs were so popular that later that year Elgar conducted the songs around British provincial music-halls (<a href="/wiki/Stoke-upon-Trent" title="Stoke-upon-Trent">Stoke</a>, Manchester, <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chiswick" title="Chiswick">Chiswick</a>), with Charles Mott (who had been called up) replaced by George Parker.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For reasons which Elgar did not understand at the time, when they returned to the Coliseum at the end of that year, Kipling appeared and objected to his songs being performed at music-halls.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kipling was upset by the report that his son John was missing.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elgar's singer, Charles Mott, was later killed in France in May 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recordings">Recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The first recording was made on 4 July 1917, with singers Charles Mott, Frederick Henry, Frederick Stewart and Harry Barratt, and Elgar conducting a 'Symphony Orchestra'. This acoustic recording was made for <a href="/wiki/The_Gramophone_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gramophone Company">The Gramophone Company</a> and appeared under the H.M.V. label, on discs D453-4.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Works-Songs-Piano-Music-By-Edward-Elgar-MP3-Download/11044195.html">Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar</a> "The Fringes of the Fleet" performed by Peter Savidge (baritone) with Mark Bamping, William Houghton and Edward Whiffin (chorus), and <a href="/wiki/David_Owen_Norris" title="David Owen Norris">David Owen Norris</a> (playing on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood piano)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081121200306/http://www.elgarfoundation.org/trolleyed/2/12/40/index.htm">Elgar: War Music</a> Paul Kenyon, Stephen Godward, Simon Theobald, Russell Watson (baritones), Barry Collett (conductor), Rutland Sinfonia</li> <li>The CD with the book <i>Oh, My Horses! Elgar and the Great War</i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has many historical recordings including the 1917 recording of <i>Fringes of the Fleet</i> with <a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Mott" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles James Mott">Charles Mott</a>, Frederick Henry, Frederick Stewart, and <a href="/wiki/Harry_Barratt" title="Harry Barratt">Harry Barratt</a> (baritones), conducted by Elgar</li> <li>Roderick Williams/Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra/Tom Higgins (Somm) SOMMCD243<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This recording by the <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a> Philharmonic was billed as the first fully professional orchestral performance in over 90 years.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Republication_in_Sea_Warfare">Republication in <i>Sea Warfare</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Republication in Sea Warfare"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1916 <i>The Fringes of the Fleet</i> was republished by Macmillan, titled <i>Sea Warfare</i>, with two other sections relating to the Navy and a final poem: </p> <ul><li>The Fringes of the Fleet (pages 1–92)</li></ul> <dl><dd>Opens with a poem <a href="/wiki/The_Lowestoft_Boat" title="The Lowestoft Boat">The Lowestoft Boat</a>; not titled</dd></dl> <ul><li>Tales of "The Trade" (1916) (pages 93–143)</li></ul> <dl><dd>About the Submarine Service; opens with a poem titled "The Trade" which starts: <dl><dd>They bear, in place of classic names, <dl><dd>Letters and numbers on their skin.</dd></dl></dd> <dd>They play their grisly blindfold games <dl><dd>In little boxes made of tin.</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The Battle of Jutland (1916) (pages 145–220)</li></ul> <dl><dd>About the sea <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland" title="Battle of Jutland">battle</a>; opens with a poem which starts: <dl><dd>Have you news of my boy Jack? <dl><dd>Not this tide</dd></dl></dd> <dd>When d’you think that he’ll come back? <dl><dd>Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>A poem titled "The Neutral" ends the book (pages 221–222)</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Brethren, how shall it fare with me <dl><dd>When the war is laid aside,</dd></dl></dd> <dd>If it be proved that I am he <dl><dd>For whom a world has died ?</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The song <a href="/wiki/Big_Steamers" title="Big Steamers">Big Steamers</a>, written in 1918, on a related subject with words by Kipling and music by Elgar</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-BritishLibrary-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BritishLibrary_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFElgarKipling" class="citation web cs1">Elgar, Edward; Kipling, Rudyard. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/fringes-of-fleet">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Fringes of the Fleet' by Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Enoch" title="Kurt Enoch">Enoch and Sons</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%27Fringes+of+the+Fleet%27+by+Edward+Elgar+and+Rudyard+Kipling&rft.pub=Enoch+and+Sons&rft.aulast=Elgar&rft.aufirst=Edward&rft.au=Kipling%2C+Rudyard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bl.uk%2Fcollection-items%2Ffringes-of-fleet&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Fringes+of+the+Fleet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Notes by Alastair Wilson on "The Fringes of the Fleet"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The North Foreland and the South Foreland (in Kent) are features of the south-east English coast</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Tin fish" were torpedoes, and submarines were "sardine cans"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Moore-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Moore_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Moore_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Moore_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Moore_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Moore, pages 705–710</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Mine Sweepers" is in another small booklet and called "Trawlers", published in "Twenty Poems from Rudyard Kipling"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Porte, page 201</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Foreman, p.209</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Foreman, p.321</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kennedy, p.365</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis Foreman, <i>Oh, My Horses! Elgar and the Great War</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/22/elgar-williams-guildford-po-higgins">Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet, etc: Williams/Guildford PO/Higgins</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nick Higham <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8348000/8348001.stm">Elgar rediscovered</a> BBC Saturday, 7 November 2009</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fringes_of_the_Fleet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Foreman, Lewis (ed.),"Oh, My Horses! Elgar and the Great War", Elgar Editions, Rickmansworth, 2001 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9537082-3-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9537082-3-3">0-9537082-3-3</a></li> <li>Kipling, Rudyard "The Fringes of the Fleet", Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1916</li> <li>Kipling, Rudyard "Twenty Poems from Rudyard Kipling", Methuen, London, 1918</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kennedy_(music_critic)" title="Michael Kennedy (music critic)">Kennedy, Michael</a> "Portrait of Elgar" (Oxford University Press, 1987, Third ed.) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-284017-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-284017-7">0-19-284017-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerrold_Northrop_Moore" title="Jerrold Northrop Moore">Moore, Jerrold Northrop</a> "Edward Elgar: A Creative Life" (Oxford University Press, 1984) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-315447-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-315447-1">0-19-315447-1</a></li> <li>Porte, J. F. "Sir Edward Elgar" (London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. 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title="The Naulahka: A Story of West and East">The Naulahka: A Story of West and East</a></i> (co-author, <a href="/wiki/Wolcott_Balestier" title="Wolcott Balestier">Wolcott Balestier</a>, 1892)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captains_Courageous" title="Captains Courageous">Captains Courageous</a></i> (1896)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kim_(novel)" title="Kim (novel)">Kim</a></i> (1901)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Plain_Tales_from_the_Hills" title="Plain Tales from the Hills">Plain Tales from the Hills</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Soldiers_Three" title="Soldiers Three">Soldiers Three</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Gadsbys" title="The Story of the Gadsbys">The Story of the Gadsbys</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Black_and_White_(short_story_collection)" title="In Black and White (short story collection)">In Black and White</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Phantom_%27Rickshaw_and_Other_Tales" title="The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales">The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Under_the_Deodars" title="Under the Deodars">Under the Deodars</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wee_Willie_Winkie_and_Other_Child_Stories" title="Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories">Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories</a></i> (1888)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/From_Sea_to_Sea_and_Other_Sketches,_Letters_of_Travel" title="From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel">From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barrack-Room_Ballads" title="Barrack-Room Ballads">Barrack-Room Ballads</a></i> (1892, poetry)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Many_Inventions" title="Many Inventions">Many Inventions</a></i> (1893)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jungle_Book" title="The Jungle Book">The Jungle Book</a></i> (1894) <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Mowgli%27s_Brothers" title="Mowgli's Brothers">Mowgli's Brothers</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Kaa%27s_Hunting" title="Kaa's Hunting">Kaa's Hunting</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tiger!_Tiger!_(Kipling_short_story)" title="Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story)">Tiger! Tiger!</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" title="Rikki-Tikki-Tavi">Rikki-Tikki-Tavi</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Jungle_Book" title="The Second Jungle Book">The Second Jungle Book</a></i> (1895) <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Letting_in_the_Jungle" title="Letting in the Jungle">Letting in the Jungle</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Red_Dog_(Kipling_short_story)" title="Red Dog (Kipling short story)">Red Dog</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Mowgli_Stories" title="All the Mowgli Stories">All the Mowgli Stories</a></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1895</span>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Seven_Seas_(poetry_collection)" title="The Seven Seas (poetry collection)">The Seven Seas</a></i> (1896, poetry)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Day%27s_Work" title="The Day's Work">The Day's Work</a></i> (1898)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stalky_%26_Co." title="Stalky & Co.">Stalky & Co.</a></i> (1899)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_So_Stories" title="Just So Stories">Just So Stories</a></i> (1902)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Nations" title="The Five Nations">The Five Nations</a></i> (1903, poetry)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Puck_of_Pook%27s_Hill" title="Puck of Pook's Hill">Puck of Pook's Hill</a></i> (1906)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rewards_and_Fairies" title="Rewards and Fairies">Rewards and Fairies</a></i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Fringes of the Fleet</a></i> (1915, non-fiction)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Debits_and_Credits_(book)" title="Debits and Credits (book)">Debits and Credits</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Limits_and_Renewals" title="Limits and Renewals">Limits and Renewals</a></i> (1932)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling%27s_Verse:_Definitive_Edition" title="Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition">Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Choice_of_Kipling%27s_Verse" title="A Choice of Kipling's Verse">A Choice of Kipling's Verse</a></i> (by T. S. Eliot, 1941)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Absent-Minded_Beggar" title="The Absent-Minded Beggar">The Absent-Minded Beggar</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_%22Clampherdown%22" title="The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"">The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown'</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_East_and_West" title="The Ballad of East and West">The Ballad of East and West</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Beginnings" title="The Beginnings">The Beginnings</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Bell_Buoy" title="The Bell Buoy">The Bell Buoy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Betrothed_(poem)" title="The Betrothed (poem)">The Betrothed</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Big_Steamers" title="Big Steamers">Big Steamers</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Boots_(poem)" title="Boots (poem)">Boots</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Cold_Iron_(poem)" title="Cold Iron (poem)">Cold Iron</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dane-geld_(poem)" title="Dane-geld (poem)">Dane-geld</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Danny_Deever" title="Danny Deever">Danny Deever</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Death-Bed" title="A Death-Bed">A Death-Bed</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Female_of_the_Species_(poem)" title="The Female of the Species (poem)">The Female of the Species</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fuzzy-Wuzzy" title="Fuzzy-Wuzzy">Fuzzy-Wuzzy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gentleman_ranker" title="Gentleman ranker">Gentleman ranker</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Copybook_Headings" title="The Gods of the Copybook Headings">The Gods of the Copybook Headings</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gunga_Din" title="Gunga Din">Gunga Din</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hymn_Before_Action" title="Hymn Before Action">Hymn Before Action</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If%E2%80%94" title="If—">If—</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_the_Neolithic_Age" title="In the Neolithic Age">In the Neolithic Age</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_King%27s_Pilgrimage" title="The King's Pilgrimage">The King's Pilgrimage</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Light_Brigade" title="The Last of the Light Brigade">The Last of the Light Brigade</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lowestoft_Boat" title="The Lowestoft Boat">The Lowestoft Boat</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mandalay_(poem)" title="Mandalay (poem)">Mandalay</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Mary_Gloster" title="The Mary Gloster">The <i>Mary Gloster</i></a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/McAndrew%27s_Hymn" title="McAndrew's Hymn">McAndrew's Hymn</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Boy_Jack_(poem)" title="My Boy Jack (poem)">My Boy Jack</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Recessional_(poem)" title="Recessional (poem)">Recessional</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Song_in_Storm" title="A Song in Storm">A Song in Storm</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sons_of_Martha" title="The Sons of Martha">The Sons of Martha</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Submarines_(poem)" title="Submarines (poem)">Submarines</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sweepers_(poem)" title="The Sweepers (poem)">The Sweepers</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tommy_(Kipling_poem)" title="Tommy (Kipling poem)">Tommy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ubique_(poem)" title="Ubique (poem)">Ubique</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden" title="The White Man's Burden">The White Man's Burden</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/.007" title=".007">.007</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Arrest_of_Lieutenant_Golightly" title="The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly">The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Baa_Baa,_Black_Sheep_(short_story)" title="Baa Baa, Black Sheep (short story)">Baa Baa, Black Sheep</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bread_upon_the_Waters" title="Bread upon the Waters">Bread upon the Waters</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Broken-Link_Handicap" title="The Broken-Link Handicap">The Broken-Link Handicap</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Butterfly_that_Stamped" title="The Butterfly that Stamped">The Butterfly that Stamped</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Consequences_(Kipling_story)" title="Consequences (Kipling story)">Consequences</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Conversion_of_Aurelian_McGoggin" title="The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin">The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Cupid%27s_Arrows" title="Cupid's Arrows">Cupid's Arrows</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Devil_and_the_Deep_Sea" title="The Devil and the Deep Sea">The Devil and the Deep Sea</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Drums_of_the_Fore_and_Aft" title="The Drums of the Fore and Aft">The Drums of the Fore and Aft</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fairy-Kist" title="Fairy-Kist">Fairy-Kist</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/False_Dawn_(short_story)" title="False Dawn (short story)">False Dawn</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Germ-Destroyer" title="A Germ-Destroyer">A Germ-Destroyer</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/His_Chance_in_Life" title="His Chance in Life">His Chance in Life</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/His_Wedded_Wife" title="His Wedded Wife">His Wedded Wife</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_the_House_of_Suddhoo" title="In the House of Suddhoo">In the House of Suddhoo</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Kidnapped_(short_story)" title="Kidnapped (short story)">Kidnapped</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Learoyd,_Mulvaney_and_Ortheris" title="Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris">Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lispeth" title="Lispeth">Lispeth</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King" title="The Man Who Would Be King">The Man Who Would Be King</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Matter_of_Fact" title="A Matter of Fact">A Matter of Fact</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Miss_Youghal%27s_Sais" title="Miss Youghal's Sais">Miss Youghal's Sais</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Mother_Hive" title="The Mother Hive">The Mother Hive</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Other_Man_(short_story)" title="The Other Man (short story)">The Other Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Rescue_of_Pluffles" title="The Rescue of Pluffles">The Rescue of Pluffles</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ship_that_Found_Herself" title="The Ship that Found Herself">The Ship that Found Herself</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sing-Song_of_Old_Man_Kangaroo" title="The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo">The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Taking_of_Lungtungpen" title="The Taking of Lungtungpen">The Taking of Lungtungpen</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Three_and_%E2%80%93_an_Extra" title="Three and – an Extra">Three and – an Extra</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_(short_story)" title="The Three Musketeers (short story)">The Three Musketeers</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Thrown_Away" title="Thrown Away">Thrown Away</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Toomai_of_the_Elephants" title="Toomai of the Elephants">Toomai of the Elephants</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Watches_of_the_Night" title="Watches of the Night">Watches of the Night</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wireless_(short_story)" title="Wireless (short story)">Wireless</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Yoked_with_an_Unbeliever" title="Yoked with an Unbeliever">Yoked with an Unbeliever</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling_bibliography" title="Rudyard Kipling bibliography">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bateman%27s" 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