Nautical Fiction

See also Napoleonic War Fiction
Titles in Italics are not at Northbrook but can be Interlibrary Loaned.

16th - 17th Centuries:

Rafael Sabatini

Captain Blood (1685)

The Sea-Hawk (late 16th century)

18th - Early 19th Centuries:

Tom Connery

George Markham ~ Royal Marines:

A Shred of Honour (1793)

Honour Redeemed (1794)

Honour Be Damned (1794)

David Donachie

Harry Ludlow ~ British Privateer:

The Devil’s Own Luck (1793)

The Dying Trade (1794)

A Hanging Matter (1794)

An Element of Chance (1795)

The Scent of Betrayal (1795)

A Game of Bones (1796)

C.S. Forester

Horatio Hornblower ~ Royal Navy:

Midshipman Hornblower (1794-1798)

Lieutenant Hornblower (1800-1803)

Hornblower and the Hotspur (1803-1805)

Hornblower During the Crisis (1805)

Hornblower and the Atropos (1805-1808)

Beat to Quarters (1808)

Ship of the Line (1810)

Flying Colours (1810-1811)

Commodore Hornblower (1812)

Lord Hornblower (1813-1814)

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1821-23)

J.E. Fender

Geoffrey Frost ~ American Privateer & Navy:

The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost

Audacity: Privateer out of Portsmouth

Anthony Forrest

John Justice ~ Royal Navy:

Captain Justice

The Pandora Secret (1804)

A Balance of Dangers (1807)

Alexander Kent

Richard Bolitho ~ Royal Navy:

Midshipman Bolitho (1772)

Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger (1773)

Stand into Danger (1774)

In Gallant Company (1777)

Sloop of War (1778)

To Glory We Steer (1782)

Command a King’s Ship (1784)

Passage to Mutiny (1789)

With All Dispatch (1792)

Form Line of Battle (1793)

Enemy in Sight (1793)

The Flag Captain (1797)

Signal, Close Action! (1798)

The Inshore Squadron (1800)

A Tradition of Victory (1801)

Success to the Brave (1802)

Colors Aloft! (1803)

Honor This Day (1804)

The Only Victor (1806)

Beyond the Reef (1808)

The Darkening Sea (1809)

For My Country’s Freedom (1811)

Cross of St. George (1813)

Sword of Honour (1814)

Second to None (1815)

Relentless Pursuit (1815)

Man of War (1817)

Dewey Lambdin

Alan Lewrie ~ Royal Navy:

The King’s Coat (1780)

The French Admiral (1781)

The King’s Commission (1782)

The King’s Privateer (1783)

The Gun Ketch (1788)

HMS Cockerel (1793)

A King’s Commander (1794)

Jester’s Fortune (1796)

King’s Captain (1797)

Sea of Grey (1797)

Havoc's Sword (1798)

William Mack

Fergus Kilburnie ~ Royal Navy:

Captain Kilburnie

Commodore Kilburnie

Frederick Marryat

Mr Midshipman Easy

Newton Forster, or, The Merchant Service

Peter Simple

The Privateersman

Kenneth Maynard

Matthew Lamb ~ Royal Navy:

Lieutenant Lamb (1798)

First Lieutenant

Lamb in Command

Ellis Meacham

Percival Merewether ~ East India Company:

The East Indiaman

On the Company’s Service

For King and Company

Jan Needle

William Bentley ~ Royal Navy:

A Fine Boy for Killing

The Wicked Trade

James Nelson

Isaac Biddlecomb ~ U.S. Navy:

By Force of Arms (1775)

The Maddest Idea (1775)

The Continental Risque (1776)

Lords of the Ocean (1776)

All the Brave Fellows (1777)

Thomas Marlowe ~ American Privateer:

The Guardship (1701)

The Blackbirder (1702)

The Pirate Round (1706)

Patrick O’Brian

Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin ~ Royal Navy:

Master and Commander (1800)

Post Captain (1802)

HMS Surprise (1804)

The Mauritius Command (1809)

Desolation Island (1811)

The Fortune of War (1812)

The Surgeon’s Mate (1813)

The Ionian Mission (1813)

Treason’s Harbor (1813)

The Far Side of the World (1813)

The Reverse of the Medal (1813)

The Letter of Marque (1813)

The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1813)

The Nutmeg of Consolation (1813)

The Truelove [aka Clarissa Oakes] (1813)

The Commodore (1813)

The Yellow Admiral (1813-1814)

The Hundred Days (1815)

Blue at the Mizzen (1816)

Marcus Palliser

Matthew Stalbone Loftus ~ British Privateer:

Matthew’s Prize (1690s)

Devil of a Fix (1702)

To the Bitter End (1708)

C. Northcote Parkinson

Richard Delancey ~ Royal Navy:

The Guernseyman

Devil to Pay

The Fireship

Touch and Go

So Near So Far

Dead Reckoning

Dan Parkinson

Patrick Dalton ~ British Privateer:

The Fox and the Faith (1775)

The Fox and the Fury (1775)

The Fox and the Flag

The Fox and the Fortune (1778)

Wilder Perkins

Bartholomew Hoare ~ Royal Navy:

Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities (1805) - Mystery

Hoare and the Headless Captains (1805) - Mystery

Hoare and the Matter of Treason (1805) - Mystery

Dudley Pope

Nicholas Ramage ~ Royal Navy:

Ramage (1796)

Drumbeat (1796)

Ramage and the Freebooters (1797)

Governor Ramage, R.N.

Ramage’s Prize

Ramage and the Guillotine

Ramage’s Diamond

Ramage’s Mutiny

Ramage and the Rebels

The Ramage Touch

Ramage’s Signal

Ramage and the Renegades (1802)

Ramage’s Devil (1803)

Ramage’s Trial

Ramage’s Challenge (1805)

Ramage at Trafalgar (1805)

Ramage and the Saracens

Ramage and the Dido

Julian Stockwin

Thomas Paine Kydd ~ Royal Navy:

Kydd (1793)

Artemis

Seaflower (1794)

Mutiny (1797)

Quarterdeck (1798)

Tenacious (1798)

Victor Suthren

Paul Gallant ~ French Navy:

A King’s Ransom (1745-6)

Black Cockade

In Perilous Seas (1747)

Edward Mainwaring ~ American in Royal Navy:

Royal Yankee

Golden Galleon

Admiral of Fear

Captain Monsoon

Richard Woodman

Nathaniel Drinkwater ~ Royal Navy:

An Eye of the Fleet (1780)

A King’s Cutter (1792)

A Brig of War (1798)

The Bomb Vessel (1800)

Arctic Treachery [aka The Corvette] (1803)

Decision at Trafalgar [aka 1805] (1805)

Baltic Mission (1807)

In Distant Waters (1808)

A Private Revenge (1808)

Under False Colours (1809)

The Flying Squadron (1811)

Beneath the Aurora (1813)

The Shadow of the Eagle (1814)

Ebb Tide (1843)

William Kite ~ British Privateer:

The Guineaman (1756)

The Privateersman (1775)

The East Indiaman

Jay Worrall

Captain Charles Edgemont ~ Royal Navy:

Sails on the Horizon (1797)

Any Approaching Enemy (1798)

Mid 19th - Early 20th Centuries:

Alexander Fullerton

Nick Everard ~ Royal Navy:

The Blooding of the Guns (1916)

Sixty Minutes for St. George (1918)

Patrol to the Golden Horn (1918)

Philip McCutchan

Tom Chatto ~ Merchant Marines & Royal Navy:

Apprentice to the Sea (late 19th century)

The Second Mate

The New Lieutenant (WWI-1914)

Robert Macomber

Peter Wake ~ Union Navy:

At the Edge of Honor (1863)

James Nelson

Glory in the Name (1861)

Thieves of Mercy (1862)

David Poyer

Eli Eaker ~ Union Navy:

Fire on the Waters (1861)

A Country of Our Own (1861)

That Anvil of Our Souls (1862)

World War II - Cold War:

Edward Beach

Edward Richardson ~ U.S. Navy, Submarine:

Run Silent, Run Deep (WWII)

Dust on the Sea (WWII)

Cold Is the Sea (1960)

Alexander Fullerton

Nick Everard ~ Royal Navy:

Last Lift from Crete (1940)

Storm Force to Narvik (1941)

All the Drowning Seas (1942)

A Share of Honour (1942)

The Torch Bearers (1942)

The Gatecrashers (1943)

John Gobbell

Todd Ingram ~ U.S. Navy:

The Last Lieutenant (1942)

Code for Tomorrow (1942)

When Duty Whispers Low (1943)

The Neptune Strategy (1944)

Harry Homewood

U.S. Navy, Submarines:

Final Harbor (1943)

Silent Sea (1943)

O God of Battles (WWII)

Torpedo! (Cold War)

Philip McCutchan

Donald Cameron ~ Royal Navy:

Cameron, Ordinary Seaman

Cameron Comes Through (1941)-Large Type

Cameron of the Castle Bay

Lieutenant Cameron, RNVR

Cameron’s Convoy

Cameron in the Gap (1942)

Orders for Cameron (1942)

Cameron in Command

Cameron and the Kaiserhof

Cameron’s Raid

Cameron’s Chase

Cameron’s Troop Lift

Cameron’s Commitment

Cameron’s Crossing

John Mason Kemp ~ Royal Navy:

The Convoy Commodore

Convoy North

Convoy South

Convoy East

Convoy of Fear

Convoy Homeward

Nicholas Monsarrat

Royal Navy:

The Cruel Sea (1939-1945)

Douglas Reeman

Royal Navy, Non-series:

A Prayer for the Ship

HMS Saracen (1941)

Rendezvous—South Atlantic (1941)

Strike from the Sea (1941)

In Danger’s Hour (1943-1944)

The Greatest Enemy (1944)

A Ship Must Die (1944)

Surface with Daring (1944)

With Blood and Iron (1944)

Late 20th - Early 21st Centuries:

James Cobb

Amanda Lee Garrett ~ U.S. Navy:

Choosers of the Slain (2006) - Large Print

Sea Strike (2006)

Sea Fighter (2007)

Target Lock (2008)

Gordon Kent

Alan Craik & Rose Siciliano ~ U.S. Navy Pilots:

Rules of Engagement (1990)

Peacemaker (1998)

Top Hook

Hostile Contact

David Poyer

Dan Lenson ~ U.S. Navy:

The Circle

The Med

The Passage

Tomahawk

The Gulf

China Sea (1990)

Black Storm (1991)

The Command (1992)

The Threat

Patrick Robinson

U.S. Navy Series:

Nimitz Class (2002)

Kilo Class (2003)

HMS Unseen (2004)

USS Seawolf (2005)

The Shark Mutiny (2007)

Barracuda 945 (2004-08)

Scimitar SL-2 (2008)

Hunter Killer (2009)

Ghost Force (2011)