Admiral Fisher (1841 – 1920)
John Fisher photographed around the time of his cooperation with the White Rajah of Sarawak / en.wikipedia.org
John Arbuthnot Fisher was one of the last great fighting sailors, in the tradition of Nelson, Frobisher and Drake. He first went to sea as a midshipman with the British Royal Navy at the age of thirteen.He survived this often cruel and demoralising apprenticeship, and went on to fight as an eighteen year old third lieutenant with the White Rajah of Sarawak, Brooke, who was engaged in the business of sweeping the multitudinous pirates of Sumatra from the South China Sea. Fisher survived that too.