Under Sail

RICHARD WOODMAN

Little, Brown, UK

the Darkening Sea

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Little,Brown

Nathaniel Drinkwater, Midshipman: An Eye of the Fleet

Pinnacle Books

View From The Sea

Travel

Century Publishing

A Brig of War: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

Contemporary

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold in The Corvette. Rewarded by promotion for his services at the Battle of Copenhagen, Commander Drinkwater is dispatched in haste to replace the captain of the Melusine, who has been shot in a duel. The ship sails as an escort to a whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland Sea in pursuit of right whales. During the whale hunt the loss of one of the vessels sets off a chain of misfortune. Disaster, death and treachery result. To repair his ship, Drinkwater seeks shelter off the Greenland coast and finds more hazards than the Arctic alone can produce. It is here that Drinkwater makes the most difficult decision of his career.

The Corvette

This is a description of life aboard "Antigone", a British Merchant Navy vessel, one of the Holt Line's "China Boats" on a voyage from Liverpool to the Far East and back again by way of the Suez in the 1960s. To evoke the atmosphere of the voyage, the author, who has had six years' service in cargo liners, recounts the long watches of the night and details the moods of officers, men, sea and weather. He aims to capture the sights, the smells, the satisfaction and the sadness of a style of seafaring which has since been displaced by container ships and roll-on roll-off ferries. Accounts are given of the transvestites of Singapore and the almond-eyed whores of Hong Kong, as well as the intracacies of derricks and cargo storage - human hair and hog bristle from China, liquid latex and palm oil from Malaysia. The author has also written the Nathaniel Drinkwater series of naval historical novels.

Voyage East: A Cargo Ship in the 1960's

Biographies & Memoirs

Ebb Tide

In A Brig of War, Nathaniel Drinkwater is promoted lieutenant of the brig Hellebore. He finds routine convoy escort duties end abruptly when Admiral Nelson, pursuing the French fleet to Egypt, sends Hellebore to the Red Sea with an urgent warning to the British squadron there. However, Nelson’s apprehensions over French ambitions in the East are more than justified. Edouard Santhonax, Drinkwater’s old enemy, is already preparing for a French descent on India. The hunt for this elusive Frenchman and his frigate is combined with British naval operations on the flank of Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. It is during the attack on Kosseir that Drinkwater is left for dead. His escape and the subsequent desperate attack on Santhonax leads to a still more dangerous situation under Augustus Morris, former tyrant of the midshipmen’s berth on HMS Cyclops.Drinkwater’s fight to bring a half-armed ship safely to the cape of Good Hope is beset with personal enmity, the activity of the French and the violence of the sea.

A Brig of War (Nathaniel Drinkwater)

SPHERE

The Flying Squadron

Magna Large Print Books

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