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...
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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...
Der berühmteste Roman des englischen Schriftstellers Daniel Defoe erzählt die Lebensgeschichte eines Mannes, der Schiffbruch erleidet und 28 Jahre auf einer einsamen Insel vor der Küste Amerikas verbringen muss. Die Geschichte des Romans beginnt,...
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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;...
Another magnificent tale of treachery at sea from a storytelling genius. Suddenly, just before dawn, the lights went out aboard the San Andreas. For the British hospital ship sailing the deadly, U-boat patrolled Norwegian waters, a nightmare of...
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