Authors Tra - Tro
Tracy, Don (1905-1976)
Crimson is the Eastern Shore. Dial, 1953. 440 pages
A romantic tale of strong-minded men and women on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the tumultuous events of 1812.
Carolina Corsair. Dial, 1955. 375 pages
The year is 1717 and Edward Teach -- Blackbeard the Pirate -- is plaguing the American coast in an alchoholic haze. Novel that makes Blackbeard's irrational behavior a consequence of alcoholism.
Tracy, Louis (1863-1928)
The Wings of the Morning. E. J. Clode, 1903. 354 pages
Following a shipwreck, two survivors - a young woman and a sailor with a mysterious past - land on a deserted island, find a treasure, and then must fight off fierce Malay pirates to keep it.
The Pillar of Light. E.J. Clode, 1904. 399 pages
Reprinted as The Wreck of the Chinook. Two decades of the tangled lives of people resident in a lighthouse off the British coast
The Captain of the Kansas. Grosset & Dunlap, 1906. 336 pages
Gallant captain of the KANSAS, on a run from Chile to England, with the help of assorted more or less useful passengers, overcomes sabotage, Indian attacks, and the stormy sea and finally gets the girl to boot. It's a pretty good look at the racial stereotyping of the day, but holds up pretty well after 90 years.
Tranter, Nigel (1909-2000)
The Man Behind the Curtain. Hodder And Stoughton, 1959. 251 pages
The rescue of an anti-communist Doctor from communist held Poland. Set in the Baltic on the Island of Bornholm. A rare thriller from a historical fiction specialist
Traven, B. (1890-1969)
The Death Ship: the Story of an American Sailor. Chatto & Windus, 1934. 311 pages
Black comedy about the black gang of a doomed freighter. Translation of: Das Totenschiff: Geschichte eines amerikanischen Seemanns.
Travers, Robert J. (1911-1974)
20th Meridian. Norton, 1951. 288 pages
Story of a convoyed tramp steamer carrying a load of whiskey during wartime, and the effects of the situation on the crew.
Treat, Ida (1889-1978)
"To Celebes". New Yorker, October 26, 1963
Married newspaperwoman and young ship's doctor in the final stage of tuberculosis take off for one last journey. See Katherine Mansfield's "The Stranger"
Treece, Henry (1911-1966)
Viking trilogy:
Viking's Dawn. The Bodley Head, 1955. 154 pages
Tells the story of the earliest Vikings, before they were the kings of the sea.
The Road To Miklagard. The Bodley Head, 1957. 174 pages
The adventures of Harald and his Viking companions in their quest for the treasure guarded by an Irish giant.
Viking's Sunset. The Bodley Head, 1960. 182 pages
Westward to Greenland, Iceland and then the New World (and their warriors)
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Criterion, 1958. 190 pages
Trelawny, Edward John (1792-1881)
Adventures of a Younger Son. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 3 volumes
RN midshipman deserts in India because of harsh treatment, joins an American privateer sailing under French letter of marque, has various adventures in the Indian Ocean and East Indies. He's indignant about the ill treatment of the natives by foreign intruders, but behaves just as callously himself. Some episodes (e.g. ship overrun by man-hungry naked Malay women) were omitted from the original edition, because of protests by Trelawny's friend Mary Shelley, but are restored in the Oxford English Novels edition, 1974, which also has useful notes.
Trevor, Elleston (1920-1995)
The Big Pick-Up : a novel of Dunkirk. Macmillan, 1955. 259 pages
Trevor's first best seller takes a less sentimental view of the Dunkirk evacuation. Was made into a film by the Ealing Studios under the title "Dunkirk" (1958).
Gale Force. Heinemann, 1956. 262 pages
"A shattering story of a [steam]ship's fight for survival in the Atlantic gone mad." [from bookjacket blurb]
Trew, Antony (1906-1996)
Two Hours to Darkness. Random House, 1962. 312 pages
Captain of a British Polaris submarine goes mad during a patrol in the Baltic Sea in 1960s. He plans to launch Polaris missiles at the USSR, while his exec, learning of the plot is determined "to keep his yardarm clear," and not endanger his own chances of promotion.
Smoke Island. Collins, 1964. 318 pages
9 mismatched survivors are stranded on a coral island.
The Sea Break. Collins, 1966. 255 pages
Lt. Cmdr. Widmark plans to seize and sail a German vessel from a neutral East African port.
The White Schooner. Collins, 1969. 255 pages
Mystery and revenge in the Balearics.
The Moonraker Mutiny. St. Martin's, 1972. 288 pages
Crew mutinies and abandons freighter on way to Australia.
Kleber's Convoy. St. Martin's, 1973. 222 pages
Johan Kleber commands a wolf pack hunting a Murmansk bound convoy, while an old friend commands its destroyer escort.
The Zhukov Briefing. St. Martin's, 1975. 254 pages
Soviet sub runs aground off Norway.
Death of a Supertanker. St. Martin's, 1978. 220 pages
A supertanker runs aground on the African coast, leaving behind dead sailors and a massive insurance bill. Someone on board had sabotaged its navigation gear. Suspects range from a crewman up to the captain.
The Antonov Project. St. Martin's, 1979. 235 p.pages
US and UK intelligence want to know what's with Russia's new class of bulk carrier ships that never take on cargo.
Sea Fever. St. Martin's, 1980. 220 pages
During a single-handed round trip race to the Azores from Britain our hero finds stowaway aboard his small ketch. Her presence will disqualify him, but only if she is discovered.
Running wild. Collins, 1982. 249 pages
Anti-apartheid activists escape S. Africa in a ketch.
Bannister's Chart. St. Martin's, 1984. 285 pages
Mystery and suspense as a cruise ship get battered by a cyclone and diverted on a treasure hunt.
Yashimoto's Last Dive. St. Martin's, 1986. 287 pages
Japanese submarine commander and British destroyer captain in a duel on the Indian ocean during WW II.
The Chalk Circle. St. Martin's, 1989. 256 pages
Spy thriller set in Mozambique. Survivors of a wrecked big game fishing boat and a small aircraft are drawn into an intrigue.
Trimble, Hugh J. (1924- )
Return from the Deep. McHew, 1958. 197 pages
A US sub skipper sinks a Japanese ship, finds out later that it contained US prisoners of war, including his best friend. Based on an actual incident during WW II.
Trowbridge, John (1843-1923)
Three Boys on an Electrical Boat. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. 215 pages
Trowbridge, a professor of physics at Harvard for forty years, wrote several adventure novels for young readers utilizing various electrical inventions. This is the sole nautical one