It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, he is required to 'repair in the first instance to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and reasonably assist the senior officer...
The British Empire has sleepwalked, unprepared into war with the Triple Alliance, the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean and Central America.
But this is not to be a war like those which have gone before it; wars decided by crushing British sea...
In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the S.S. Benbencula was already old. Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship's...
In October 1772 Richard Bolitho waits at Portsmouth to join the Gorgon, a seventy-four gun ship of the line. Although only sixteen, Midshipman Bolitho is already a veteran of four years in the King's Navy, and is determined that in this, his...
Clive Cussler debuted his new series, The Oregon Files, with the incredible adventure of Golden Buddha. Now he follows that triumph with Sacred Stone, a rollicking new tale featuring the enigmatic captain of The Oregon, Juan Cabrillo.In the...
Sea stories of American writers.
"Mr. French has assembled from late and early American days and from a various crew: he gives us the worried Pilgrims praying the gale to end, and he gives us the hard driving Gloucester fishermen praying it to...
Dr. Eva Rojas: On a beach near Alexandria two men brutally attacked her. Saved by Dirk Pitt, she realized that she had stumbled upon a terrible secret…
Yves Massarde: Known as the Scorpion, he made clandestine deals to get rid of other...
He was called “Captain Luck”. Anton Platov was invariably a winner fighting with the most severe storms at sea. But nobody knew the captain’s mystery, which never allowed him to be...
Sam Steele, sixteen years old, is the son of a sea captain. His father is reported killed in a shipwreck, and Sam is quickly cheated of his inheritance. Now an orphan, Sam meets his maternal uncle, Naboth Perkins, another sea captain and ship-owner;...