Extraordinary maritime heroes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries stride across these pages...
At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type ...
Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah...
Captain John Mackinnon and his ship, the Matthew Flinders, are embarking on their last voyage. Bo...
The frozen splendour of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth-century whale hu...
From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is compelled to deal ...
It is 1801. Napoleon is reaching supreme power in France and has allied himself with Tsar Paul of...
THE BOMB VESSEL It is 1801, and Napoleon is reaching supreme power in France and has allied himse...
AN EYE OF THE FLEET Nathaniel Drinkwater is engaged in dramatic action off the coast of Spain in ...
Nathaniel Drinkwater's life at sea begins with the HMS Cyclops' capture of the Santa Teresa durin...
Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater's frigate, HMS Antigone, is ordered to the Baltic Sea in the spring ...
Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig Hellebore, and routine convoy escort duti...