Sea Stories
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

Scots, Welsh and Irish) referred to "the British". Anyway, once having got out of Cadiz on an east wind, where would the Combined Fleet go? If north-westward for the English ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1983-06-29 | 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: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1988-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

stylized object. Anyway, it seemed that Southwick had told the master's mate, who'd told a quartermaster. Soon a request had come back from the ship's company: if they found a ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

THE GUNS OF CARABOBO She was exactly like a British ship of war; naturally, perhaps, since she had been one most of her life until she was sold out of ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | 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: Crime February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Jack London

( Category: Sea Stories February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

Bolitho ducked his head beneath the low beams and groped his way through the semi-darkness of the orlop deck. By comparison the air and light of the quarterdeck even at ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

She gave the hammaco another angry push. "You cannot buy more brandy because there is none to buy. You can use the money in your pocket to buy so much ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Alexander Kent

So many ifs and maybes. Suppose the plan to land on and capture the French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe misfired? Without overwhelming superiority at sea the scheme would certainly ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1999-03-30 | 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 February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 8 The happy days followed. The far ship was indeed the Revenant. Chase had never seen the French warship at close quarters and, try as he might, he could ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |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 February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1980-11-08 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER EIGHT It was a black night for the squadron when the Ariel slipped her moorings and stood out into the rain-swept midnight sea, for she carried with her most ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )

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