The sixth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series
Another installment in Woodman's ongoing series featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater of the British Navy. Here, Drinkwater is the skipper of the British vessel Antigone, which is massing with other...
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U-boat off the Diamond Coast ... The U - boat veered. This was the moment I'd been waitng for. I dived. The icy water was a terrible shock. I went down, down, down. Then the U - boat's black shadow came between me and the surface, the hulk trailing...
In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig HELLEBORE. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends HELLEBORE to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to...
The evil reputation of Captain Daniel Swift, coupled with the wretched conditions of naval life, mean that only the most desperate of men will join him on the frigate Welfare - at least of their own free will. To make up the numbers, he must resort...
My hands were already at Walter's throat as he fought to get clear of his harness. I kicked his feet from under him as he fumbled. I was still held in the strait-jacket grip of the Hotchkiss harness. Walter fell, rolled, dragged himself on one...
Зарубежная классическая проза, Морские приключения
A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence: Three Months Abroad
A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence: Three Months...
The second book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
Midshipman Drinkwater is back in the Navy in 1792, appointed to the 12-gun cutter Kestral. Off the French coast, the Kestral becomes involved in the secret and dangerous adventures linked...
After Yellow Fever decimated the crew of Alan Lewrie’s HMS Proteus, it had seemed like a knacky idea to abscond with a dozen slaves from a Jamaican plantation to help man his frigate. But two years later, Lewrie is now suspected of the deed....
In the aftermath of a typhoon, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings His Britannic Majesty's frigate Patrician into the shelter of the Pearl River on the China coast. Seeking the means to refit, he is unwittingly entangled in bizarre events...
PASSAGE TO DANGER...
JETWIND is magnificent. The revolutionary computerized sailing ship, swifter than the fastest clipper, will rule the seas-if she can break the speed records from South America to the Cape...
But her maiden voyage through the icy...