Sea Adventures
mobi, epub |eng | 1966-01-02 | Author:Alistair MacLean

At the best of times, weighing anchor by electric windlass is not a job for a moron, even an alert moron. Even our small windlass had a pull of over ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-06-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The grief and anxiety did not die away, but of necessity they receded, and as the Bellona worked her way, tack upon tack, round the Saints to regain ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1986-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1981-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN 'And so, sir,' said Jack, 'I left them there and shaped a course for Barka, having first sent Dryad to inform you of their presence.' 'I see,' said ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX Knowing of the presence of a hostile ship of the line in the same ocean, the Leopard redoubled her attention to gunnery. Although the presence was remote and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-03-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX 'We therefore commit his body to the deep,' said Captain Aubrey, 'to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body (when the Sea shall give ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XI These were the blue waters where history had been made, where the future of civilization had been decided, more than once and more than twice. Here Greek had ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1979-04-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-06-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1977-12-08 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1973-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER EIGHT The Surprise lay at single anchor, well out in the channel: the wind was fair, the tide near the height of flood, and her captain stood at the ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-02-07 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER NINE The Polychrest left her convoy in 38° 30' N., ll°W., with the wind at south-west and the Rock of Lisbon bearing S87E., 47 leagues. She fired a gun, ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1970-05-07 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER Eight 'I am entirely at a loss, upon my honour; and so I lay the position before you, confiding wholly in your candour.. I am entirely at a loss: ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-14 | Author:Alistair MacLean

chapter 8 [thursday 4 p.m.-10 p.m.] it was late afternoon when I awoke, round four o'clock: still a good four hours short of sunset, but already the surgery lights were ...
( Category: Terrorism March 25,2014 )