Bullen
FRANK THOMAS, an English author, born in Paddington, London, April 5, 1857. His early education was scanty, and after acting as errand boy with various mercantile firms, he embarked in 1869 as an ordinary seaman , BULL FROG soon rising to the position of chief mate.
In 1883 he abandoned the sea, and became a clerk in the English meteorological office, a position which he held until 1889. He wrote some short sketches bearing on seafaring life, and they were so extraordinarily vivid and interesting and were SO pervaded with the very breath of the sea that he soon achieved a reputation with publishers and the reading public. Among his numerous writings may be mentioned "The Cruise of the Cachalot" (1898) "The Log of a Sea Waif" (1899); "With Christ at Sea" (1901); "Deep Sea Plunderings" (1901) "A Whaleman's Wife" (1902) Wife" (1902); and "The Call of the Deep" (1907). He died at Madeira in 1915.