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By Patrick O'Brian. 1997
Jack Aubrey has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he has not committed. His friend, Stephen…
Maturin, has bought for him his old ship the "Surprise". Palliated by the command of a "private man-of-war" - a letter of marque, Aubrey sets out on a voyage with Maturin which, if successful, might restore him to the rank whose loss he so much regrets. Sequel to: "The reverse of the medal" (DC31583). Followed by "The thirteen-gun salute" (DC31585). 1997. (Jack Aubrey ; 12)By Hammond Innes. 1981
The private journal that Captain Cook might have written on his fatal last voyage, but did not. Purports to be…
a diary found in the cellars of the old St. James Club in which Cook prepares for his third voyage of discovery and hopes to locate the Pacific Northwest Passage to the Atlantic by which the crown can trade more easily with China and the Indies. 1981.By Philip McCutchan. 1991
In 1915, the ocean liner "Lurentia" sails from New York with a number of important American and British people as…
well as a supply of war materials. Captain William Pacey is unaware that his ship may be a pawn to draw America into World War I. Violence and strong language. 1991.From his earliest boyhood, John Smith wanted to go adventuring over the sea. He followed his dream through Europe, and…
destiny led him to the new colony of Virginia, where he was to find joy and bitterness, fulfillment and disaster. He was to be a distrusted Paleface and a semi-god, and was to be saved from death by the beautiful, half-wild Pocahontas. 1996.By Henry Carlisle. 1984
By Dewey Lambdin. 2011
1803. Royal Navy captain Alan Lewrie rescues a French fleet from a slave revolt in once-prosperous Haiti. Back in London,…
King George knights Lewrie, who begins an affair with a divorcee and tests an innovative weapon for the war with Napoleon. Some violence and some strong language. 2010. (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series ; 17)By Alexander Kent. 1979
Copenhagen, 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The…
scene of battle shifts abruptly from Europe to the Baltic where the British Navy encounters the bitter hardship of blockade duty. Richard Bolitho, recently appointed rear admiral, is in charge of his first squadron, and is thrown immediately into a fierce and bloody struggle with the enemy. The outcome of the crucial Battle of Copenhagen is in Bolitho's hands. Sequel to "Signal, close action!" (DC32994), followed by "A tradition of victory" (DC05817). 1979. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 15)By Patrick O'Brian. 1998
Napoleon's last colossal effort to realise his ambition, known in naval circles as 'the hundred days', brought to Jack Aubrey…
an eleventh hour rescue of a lifetime's service in the Royal Navy, which seemed to be ending in inconspicuous respectability. He is tasked to operate within and without the Mediterranean on a number of difficult and dangerous missions. 1998. (Jack Aubrey ; 19)By Thomas Hoover. 1983
Adventure novel based on the true story of one of the intrepid seamen sent by the East India Company in…
the seventeenth century to open trade with India. Brian Hawksworth is appointed by King James to pilot the sea vessel "Discovery" to India in hopes of breaking Portugal's hold on trade with that country. Caught between two lovely women, he battles with his temptations and the Portuguese conspirators. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1983.By Victoria Cribb, Sjón. 2013
1949. Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has the…
good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening, Caeneus entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on its quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. 2013, c2012. Uniform title: Argóarflísin.By Joseph Conrad. 1967
Three of Conrad's most well-known stories in one book. In "Youth" he explores a boy's reactions to his first sea-voyage.…
"Heart of Darkness" describes the search for a long-lost explorer in the depths of the jungle. In the final story, "The End of the Tether", an honourable sea-captain discovers that he can be as corrupt as his crew and in so doing commits the unpardonable sin of endangering his ship. 1967.By Elmore Leonard. 2010
Filmmaker Dara Barr arrives in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to document Somalian pirates. Elderly African American Xavier LeBo,…
Dara's assistant, accompanies her, but they end up in the middle of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up a loaded gas tanker. Bestseller. 2010.By Jeffery Farnol. 1940
The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with…
every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke. Two men had I seen die beside me, yet Death ever passed me by, nay. But it seemed I could not die. Therefore, as I strove at the heavy oar I prayed 'twixt gnashing teeth a prayer I had often prayed, and the matter of my praying was thus: "O God of Justice, for the agony I needs must now endure, for the bloody stripes and bitter anguish give to me vengeance, vengeance, O God, on mine enemy." 1940.By Alistair Maclean. 1955
A story of naval action in the North Atlantic during World War II. In addition to the tense situation which…
existed when Admiral Starr was sent to investigate a mutiny on the Ulysses, the crew faced the dangers of Wolf Packs, squadrons of German bombers, and the terrible cold. 1955.By Richard Woodman. 1985
It is the summer of 1804, and all along the Channel coast of France Napoleon is massing his vast army…
for the invasion of England, awaiting only the arrival of his Combined Fleet to sweep the British from the sea for a few vital days. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater's vessel, the Antigone, is sent to patrol the Channel coast, helping the Royal Navy maintain a blockade of the enemy's ports. Drinkwater's extraordinary part in bringing about the great confrontation off Cape Trafalgar, in October 1805, is here told for the first time. 1985. (Nathaniel Drinkwater ; 6)By Philip McCutchan. 1995
McCutchan begins a series with this account of Tom Chatto, almost seventeen and fresh from West Ireland, who signs on…
as an apprentice aboard the Pass of Drumochter. On his first trip to sea, Tom must deal with an aging but fair captain, a brutal first mate, and a stowaway who proves to be a murderer. He also quickly learns the value of what is termed "jodurecom" - job, duty, responsibility, and command. 1995. (Tom Chatto ; 1) Uniform title: Tom ChattoBy Tony Chiu, Robert D Ballard. 1992
In 1988 Lieutenant Edna Haddix is on assignment aboard Fanning II as the ship studies a micro- section of the…
Hellencian Trench in the Mediterranean. When their underwater research vehicles spot an empty wet suit, Haddix knows she has found the remains of an Israeli submarine, with a mysterious cargo, that sank in the 1960s. Suddenly the United States, Russia, and Israel are interested in its contents. 1992.By Alexander Kent. 1992
In March 1808, war is spreading through Europe and Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho takes passage in the ill-fated Golden Plover,…
bound for the Cape of Good Hope. Estranged from his wife and child, and plagued by the fear of blindness, he leaves behind the contempt of society and bitter memories of a friendship betrayed, and takes with him the mistress he will not forsake. Sequel to "The only victor" (DC10437), followed by "The darkening sea" (DC14219). 1992. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 21)By Richard Woodman. 1992
An unexpected boatload of Vietnamese refugees and a destructive typhoon create a sense of suspense and adventure in this novel…
about a British sea captain on his last voyage. Like him, his aging cargo-liner is headed for retirement. The deathly risks on this last trip prove to be his greatest challenge ever. 1992.