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The Admiralty Adventures
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Author : C. E. Cumming
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-12
The Admiralty Adventures written by C. E. Cumming and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with categories.
Shipwrecked on a desert island, following a high seas battle with pirates, Admiral Burrell of the King's fleet finds himself in the company of a fellow admiral and a handful of crew. Together with a rag-tag bunch of pirates - one of whom bears a royal title, is wanted for treason and is in possession of a treasure map; they unwittingly stumble across an ancient mystical treasure chest, unleashing an unspeakable power buried deep within - propelling them all into another realm and an adventure of a lifetime! In a breathtaking race against time, with limited weapons to aid them through unknown territories, they must outsmart and outrun terrifying dangers which relentlessly pursue their every move - on their quest to get back home.
A Hard Cruel Shore
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Author : Dewey Lambdin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-02-02
A Hard Cruel Shore written by Dewey Lambdin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Fiction categories.
“You could get addicted to this series. Easily.”---The New York Times Book Review The year 1809 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, and his ship, HMS Sapphire. They’ve extracted the sick, cold survivors of Sir John Moore’s army from disaster at Corunna, got hit by lightning while escorting the army to England, and suffered a shattered mainmast which may end Lewrie’s active commission if a replacement can’t be found or fashioned soon. Admiralty needs troopships, not slow, old Fourth Rate two-deckers, so Lewrie must beg, borrow, steal, and gild the facts most glibly if he wishes to keep her and her skilled crew together. Just when he imagines he’s succeeded, new orders come appointing him a Commodore over a wee squadron assigned to prey upon French seaborne supply convoys off the treacherous north coast of Spain, better known as the Costa da Morte, the Coast of Death, where the sea may be more dangerous to him and his ships than the French Navy! Basing out of newly won Lisbon, where Lewrie hopes his mistress from Gibraltar, Maddalena Covilhá, might move, he’s sure of one thing: It's going to be a rocky year that, hopefully, doesn’t involve wrecking on the rugged shores of Spain!
The King S Marauder
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Author : Dewey Lambdin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-02-04
The King S Marauder written by Dewey Lambdin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Fiction categories.
The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. In The King's Marauder, his frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last, there's a bright spot. When fit, Admiralty awards him a new commission; not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker Fourth Rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good? Lewrie's ordered to Gibraltar, but Foreign Office Secret Branch's spies and manipulators have use for him, again! HMS Sapphire is the wrong ship for the task, raising chaos and mayhem along the Spanish coasts, and servicing agents and informers. And, what he's ordered to do needs soldiers, landing craft, and a transport ship, all of which he doesn't have, and must find a way to finagle it all. He could beg off and say that it's asking too much, but . . . Alan Lewrie is not a man to admit failure and defeat, and his quest might prove the most daunting of his long naval career. For fans of historical fiction, Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie series ranks alongside such greats as Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester for its terrific period detail and irresistible hero.
The Sea
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Author : Frederick Whymper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
The Sea written by Frederick Whymper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
Gentleman Of Fortune
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Author : Evelyn Tidman
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-12-14
Gentleman Of Fortune written by Evelyn Tidman and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-14 with Fiction categories.
What makes Bartholomew Roberts, an ordinary seaman who had once served in His Majesty's navy, turn pirate or 'go on the account'? In six weeks he's the captain of a drunken, bloodthirsty crew. Black Bart Roberts, notorious throughout the Caribbean and the West African coast, decimates British trade. Pulling off one daring stunt after another, he wins and loses a large fortune in gold and jewels and wins and loses Portuguese beauty Lucia. Something has to be done about him, and the Admiralty sends out Captain Chaloner Ogle to apprehend him. GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE Swashbuckling adventure based on the TRUE story of Bartholomew Roberts and his crew.
Reefs And Shoals
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Author : Dewey Lambdin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-01-17
Reefs And Shoals written by Dewey Lambdin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-17 with Fiction categories.
Pity poor Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy! He's been wind-muzzled for weeks in Portsmouth, snugly tucked into a warm shore bed with lovely, and loving, Lydia Stangbourne, a Viscount's daughter, and beginning to enjoy indulging his idle streak, when Admiralty tears Lewrie away and order him to the Bahamas, into the teeth of ferocious winter storms. It's enough to make a rakehell such as he weep and kick furniture! At least his new orders allow Lewrie to form a small squadron from what ships he can dredge up at Bermuda and New Providence and hoist his first broad pendant, even if it is the lesser version, and style himself a Commodore. Lewrie is to scour the shores of Cuba and Spanish Florida, the Keys and the Florida Straits in search of French and Spanish privateers which have been taking British merchantmen at an appalling rate, and call upon neutral American seaports to determine if privateers are getting aid and comfort from that quarter. Lewrie is to be "Diplomatic." Diplomatic? Lewrie? Not bloody likely! To solve the problem and find the answers will put Lewrie in touch with old friends, old foes, and more frustration than a dog has fleas. As usual, though, Captain Alan Lewrie will find his own unique way to fulfill his duties, and in the doing, find some fun in his own irrepressible manner! Reefs and Shoals is the 18th installment in the Alan Lewrie series, from Dewey Lambdin, "The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales" (Kirkus Reviews).
Tyger
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Author : Julian Stockwin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-11-01
Tyger written by Julian Stockwin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-01 with Fiction categories.
The 16th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd. The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd’s commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has sympathy for Popham’s unauthorized action but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the Admiralty. With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a new commission that his rivals hope will destroy his career. The Tyger's have recently mutinied, but instead of dispersing her company around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Sea and Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence. Enemies aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic, where they will find themselves entangled with Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia. The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible, and the French implacable. The only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division out of the jaws of Napoleon’s advancing army. Will he return home once more a hero or face a court-martial himself?
Hostile Shores
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Author : Dewey Lambdin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-02-26
Hostile Shores written by Dewey Lambdin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with Fiction categories.
"Lambdin is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner." —Washington Times In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from the Dutch. In the wake of that victory, Lewrie heads west to South America, where Britain's attacks on Buenos Aires and other Spanish colonies have not been faring as well. But the worst is yet to come, and soon Lewrie will be facing a battle at sea that will put his naval career and life at risk. Dewey Lambdin has been roundly praised as one of the best living novelists writing in the vein of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. In Hostile Shores he returns with an exciting, battle-heavy tale of life in the King's Navy, starring the rough-edged hero Captain Alan Lewrie.
Halfhyde S Island
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Author : Philip McCutchan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004-04-01
Halfhyde S Island written by Philip McCutchan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Royal Navy Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is assigned as second-in-command of the heavy cruiser Viceroy and ordered to a volcanic island that has recently surfaced in the north Pacific. The Admiralty hopes to claim the island for the Crown and establish an outpost there, but the hostile Russians have other ideas and the wily Japanese are prepared to carry out their own agenda.
A Fine Retribution
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Author : Dewey Lambdin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-05-30
A Fine Retribution written by Dewey Lambdin and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with Fiction categories.
Dewey Lambdin, the reigning master of maritime fiction, continues the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy in the 23rd book in the Alan Lewrie series, A Fine Retribution. Captain Alan Lewrie and his small squadron defeat four French frigates off northern Spain, winning honor, glory, and renown. So, why is such a successful captain suddenly without a ship, or another active commission? Why do rumors swirl that jealous foes’ powerful patrons are blighting his career? Months on end ashore, even in entertaining London setting up a household for himself and his retinue, getting his portrait painted, put him in serious sulks. Well, the artist is the sister of one of his midshipmen, a delightful and talented young lady of a modern outlook, but not modern enough to become Lewrie’s lover. Dare he risk a second marriage? Then, just when things are the rosiest, at last, Admiralty calls upon him to develop and command a plan to raid French-held coasts, not with sailors and Marines from his own ship, but with a battalion of Army troops carried in a squadron of transports. It’s intriguing, novel, and a way back to sea, but...can he part from the desirable Jessica Chenery? And if Lewrie does, will his foes allow him to succeed? Be certain that Alan Lewrie will prevail, scruples be damned!