He entered HMS Britannia in August 1897, his 1113 marks placing him fifty-eighth in merit among the sixty-three candidates accepted as naval cadets.
[2] By then an acting sub-lieutenant, he was in late September 1902 transferred to the seagoing training brig HMS Dolphin.
[4] Dorling wrote three types of books:[5] The following list is drawn from the Jisc Library Hub Discover catalogue.
This is an online database that collates 161 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues.
Nevertheless, this catalogue is not exhaustive, and three titles drawn from searches on Abe Books, a site for the used-book trade, are included.