Nautical
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
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In 1826, HMS Erebus, a ‘bomb’ vessel strong enough to carry heavy mortars, was built of oak and reinforced with iron. In 1839, having demonstrated ...Read Review
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
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Ranked among ships of historic note—Drake’s Golden Hind, Bligh’s Bounty, Franklin’s Erebus, Titanic—is the Endeavour, in which Lieutenant ...Read Review
A Sea of Gold: Thomas Kydd 21
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Set in 1809, this is the latest in the Thomas Kydd series, with Thomas as the captain of the frigate, HMS Tyger. Wellesley, the ...Read Review
Rough Passage to London: A Sea Captain’s Tale
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Robin Lloyd is famous as an Emmy award-winning television and print journalist who covered the White House during the Reagan and Bush administrations. ...Read Review
A Lawless Place (Contraband Shore)
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The sequel to Donachie’s The Contraband Shore (2017), this novel is set in and around Deal (where the author lives) in 1787. Naval captain ...Read Review
Dark Water
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Boston, 1883. Hiram Carver, a callow, pampered youth, takes up his first position as assistant surgeon on board USS Orbis. Aged 21, and never having ...Read Review
The California Run
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In 1850, a good deal of the population of Europe and North America would love to get to the gold rush boom town of ...Read Review
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
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The Ocean Monarch was a large, well-found American emigrant ship which had carried hundreds of migrants from Liverpool to Boston. She sank on 24 ...Read Review
The Sheer Nerve: A Mission Behind Enemy Lines
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In the spring of 1943, monstrous concrete bunkers on the French west coast protect a key supply and repair area for U-boats. Captain Hook ...Read Review
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
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An action film by Steven Spielberg had a moment – a hero recalled his experience from a World War Two warship. But that warship ...Read Review