Author: Thomas Bulfinch

Language: English

Published: 1866

Language: English

Published: 1887

Author: Walter Thornbury

Language: English

Published: 1855

Author: Walter Thornbury

Language: English

Published: 1855

Author: Walter Thornbury

Language: English

Published: 1855

Author: Joseph Holt Ingraham

Language: English

Published: 1839

The second part of this grand nautical adventure.

Author: Captain Mayne Reid

Language: English

Published: 1905

Seventy three chapters filled with adventure and romance.

or, The Ship Wreck; also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage.

Author: Agnes Strickland

Language: English

Published: 1851

Author: James Otis

Language: English

Published: 1888

"A Runaway Brig" is a sea tale, pure and simple, and that's where it strikes a boy's fancy. The reader can look out upon the wide shimmering sea as it flashes back the sunlight, and imagine himself afloat with Harry Vandyne, Walter Morse, Jim Libby and that old shell-back, Bob Brace, on the brig Bonita, which lands on one of the Bahama keys. Finally three strangers steal the craft, leaving the rightful owners to shift for themselves aboard a broken-down tug. The boys discover a mysterious document which enables them to find a buried treasure, then a storm comes on and the tug is stranded. At last a yacht comes in sight and the party with the treasure is taken off the lonely key. The most exacting youth is sure to be fascinated with this entertaining story.

Language: English

Published: 1889

Language: English

Published: 1786

Mr. Samwell's object is to prove that captain Cook did not lose his life in consequence of inattention, ralhness, or an unwarrantable contempt of the spirit of the islanders; but rom an unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, and the mistake of the gentleman who commanded the launch. The relation of the catastrophe differs in this respect, and in some other less important circumstances, from the narrative of captain King. Mr. Samwell thinks that the jealousy of the natives was not roused by the return of the ships; that the few people seen in the harbour was owing to accident, and the taboo was a necessary ceremony, before the renewal of the commercial and friendly connections.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Language: English

Published: 1900

Tales of Pirates
I Captain Sharkey: How the Governor of Saint Kitt's Came Home
II The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock
III The Blighting of Sharkey
IV How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey
V The "Slapping Sal"
VI A Pirate of the Land (One Crowded Hour)
Tales of Blue Water
VII The Striped Chest
VIII The Captain of the "Polestar"
IX The Fiend of the Cooperage
X Jelland's Voyage
XI J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
XII That Little Square Box

Language: English

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Language: English

Published: 1868

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Language: English

Published: 1860

or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Language: English

Published: 1894

"A good sea-tale for boys is 'The Last Cruise of the Spitfire,' by Edward Stratemeyer. There is plenty of adventure in it, a shipwreck, a cruise on a raft, and other stirring perils of the deep." — Detroit (Mich.) Journal.

Author: Piet Visser

Language: Dutch

Published: 1918

or, Under Scilly on the Brooklyn

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Language: English

Published: 1899

Walter Russell, brother to Larry and Ben, the respective heroes of the two preceding volumes of the series, finds his way to Boston, secures employment, enlists in the navy, and is assigned to the Brooklyn. Then follow intensely interesting chapters, telling of Commodore Schley, the idol of his men; the routine of the life of the "Jackies," and blockade and discovery of Cervera's fleet, followed by the memorable conflict of July 3rd. In point of information conveyed, "Fighting in Cuban Waters" stands high. The order of rank in the navy, and man-of-war life in detail, are cleverly and accurately presented, while historically the volume might serve as a work of reference for most of the events in Cuban waters from the destruction of the Maine to the beaching of the Spanish fleet.

Language: English

Published: 1918

Many of these vivid sketches of the work of the Navy have appeared in "Blackwood's Magazine," where they have provoked much comment and have been accorded the highest praise, as showing the manner of the task unceasingly performed by our seamen.

Language: Norwegian

Published: 1917

Language: English

Fanny Loviot sets out with her sister on a commercial speculation from Havre on the 30th of May 1832 bound for California. They touch at Rio Janeiro, and after many dangers, from which our authoress is never free throughout the volume, they reach San Francisco. A spirited picture is given of life in California; but owing to its dangers, Mademoiselle Fanny, leaving her elder sister behind, resolves to set out with one Madam Nelson on another commercial speculation to Canton, Macao, Hong-Kong, and Batavia. Her partner dies, and she at last arrives at Hong-Kong. All her hopes being thus disappointed, she resolves to return to California, and takes her passage in a Portuguese ship, the Caldera, under a Chilian flag and commanded by a Captain Rooney. After meeting with a typhoon they are boarded by pirates who strip the vessel, and force the Captain and his crew, our authoress and the only other passenger--Than Lingh, a Chinese merchant,--to submit to every indignity.

Language: Danish

Published: 1863

Language: English

Published: 1913

Follow the Tilikum (a 38 ft dugout canoe) as Captain Voss sails it around the world from 1901-1904.

Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate...

Author: Jacob Dunham

Language: English

Published: 1850

His narrow escape whenchased by an English war schooner;as well as his beingcast away and residing with Indians.To which is addedsome account of the soil, products, laws and customs of chagres, the musquitto shore, and St. Blas, at the isthmus of Darien.

Author: J. Macdonald Oxley

Language: English

Published: 1900

The story involves a boy who goes to sea and at one point takes part in the sea battle between the USS Minnesota and the Confederate ironclad Merrimac.

Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Language: English

Published: 1905

The story relates primarily the adventures of Larry Russell and his old-time sea chum, Luke Striker, already well known to the readers of my

Author: Richard H. Dana

Language: English

Published: 1859

Author: Lewis R. Freeman

Language: English

Published: 1919

Lieutenant Freeman was at the front for more than four years, part of the time on land as a freelance correspondent, and for a year and a half as the official writer-up for the British navy. In the latter capacity, the British navy sent him all over the world, and gave him a wonderful opportunity to learn things at first hand. He tells the best story yet written about the sinking of the Emden. He lived on battleships, destroyers, Hush ships, U-boats and mine sweepers, and spent a good deal of time on American destroyers. He has had better opportunities for writing about the British navy than any other man. For example, the Admiralty turned over only a few of the reports about the battle of Jutland to the public, but they gave all the reports to Lieutenant Freeman —an American who lived in Pasadena, California.

Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine

Language: English

Published: 1911

Nat Morton's Perils

Author: Frank V. Webster

Language: English

Published: 1909