Sea Authors

[Spars]

Totally agree! The "Captain from Connecticut" is a pretty enjoyable book (not Forrester's best, though) in which the seamanship of Captain Paabody and his crew is well depicted.

THANX. Right now I'm focusing on whaling. However I have been a student of history for most of my 74 yerars. The Napoleonic era demonstrates sea power at the height of the age of sail. Seamanship in the catagory of exploration as another animal. So, too, is merchant sailing. I will look up 'Captain from Connecticut'.

 

[Kimosubby]

I'll add Douglas Reeman, he wrote many naval books WW1 and WW2, and also period naval books under the name Alexander Kent.

 

[Brewerpaul]

btw fredrick marryat mr midship man easy is regarded as semi biographical.

Marryat is wonderful.

 

[Brewerpaul]

He is indeed a fun read. Along the same lines, I found the Thonas Kydd series by Julian Stockwin and the Alan Lewrie series by Dewey Lambdin to be as good and as much fun to read.
Allan

I love the nautical parts of O'Brian's novels, but he totally loses me when he wanders off into period politics, and love affairs.

 

[MunroIII]

I enjoyed reading the Ramage series by Dudley Pope. (https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/dudley-pope/). He also wrote several non-fiction historical books of the era (Decision at Trafalgar, The Great Gamble) as well as later eras.

 

[Spars]

I'll add Douglas Reeman, he wrote many naval books WW1 and WW2, and also period naval books under the name Alexander Kent.

THANX. One of my grandpas shoveled coal on an American battleship from 1911-16. His two sons were Navy during WWII. My dad survived but his older brother was a submariner and he died.

 

[MunroIII]

I have read (most of) the Bolitho novels of Alexander Kent and couple of Douglas Reeman books, and never realized they were the same person! So much to be learned on this forum.

 

[Spars]

I have read (most of) the Bolitho novels of Alexander Kent and couple of Douglas Reeman books, and never realized they were the same person! So much to be learned on this forum.

Somethinh new each time I log on. BTW, here in South Carolina I hace internet TV and watch the sea channel with no sound while I am reading.

 

[Senorbob]

the wreck of the grosvenor by w russell. (actually a sailor)

 

[Brewerpaul]

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana,Jr is a classic, autobiographical novel about life on a 19th century sailing vessel.

Based on his first hand experience, Dana wrote the remarkable book, The Seaman's Friend- A Treatise on Practical Seamanship.
This book contains just about anything anyone would want to know about sailing ships, their crews, and the actual sailing of these ships. It includes a dictionary of sea terms, and pictures illustrating the parts of ships, knots, etc. It's available from Dover Publications, and I can't recommend it highly enough.