A solitary British destroyer fights a German U-boat in the remote expanses of the South Atlantic in WW II.
Patrolling at night, alone in a far reach of the Atlantic, the destroyer Hecate's radar picked up a small echo. Was it a fishing boat,...
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Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life...
No Jolly Roger, no cannonballs whining across the Caribbean seas, no shrieking rabble of half-dressed, bearded cut-throats tumbling into the ship; none of these heralded the arrival of the Nylon Pirates. For they were the pirates of the...
Novel about romances and adventures in Cavendish's (the third) trip around the...
In 1986 General Gogol made a gamble to avoid total nuclear meltdown. Within weeks his secret was being shipped to the Arctic Ocean. Years later, Richard Mariner is commissioned to tow an iceberg to a drought-stricken state — unaware of the...
A group of scientists and professional divers descend 4,500 feet into the Cayman Trench to research the hydrothermal vents which were recently discovered there.
An accident on the bottom leaves just three members of the crew struggling for...
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under...
Get set for high seas adventure in this thrilling read from action-adventure master Percy F. Westerman. Full of realistic details gleaned from Westerman's own time in the Royal Navy, this classic World War I story will leave readers breathless with...
A Short Story from The Fighting Anthonys...
Автор: Lambdin Dewey
Серия: alan lewrie #20
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
Статус: Закончена
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The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he’s living at his father’s estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he’s recovering from a wound suffered in...