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Crace, Jim (1946- )
Signals of Distress. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. 275 pages
In the 1830s an American barque is grounded by a storm on sandbar off small village in the west of England. Americans prove to be a disturbing presence.
Cragg, John G.
At Home and at Sea:
A New War [1803] self, 2016. 208 pages
A Continuing War [1803-1804] self, 2017. 321 pages
A War by Diplomacy [1804] self, 2017. 418 pages
A Stalemated War [1805] self, 2018. 383 pages
A Changing War [1805 II] self, 2019. 363 pages
A Widening War [1806] self, 2021. 376 pages
A War in Home Waters [1807] self, 2023. 419 pages
A War in Baltic Waters [1807-11] self, 2024. 358 pages
Craig, Mary Shura (1923-1991)
Pirate's Landing. Jove, 1983. 331 pages
Saga of an American colonial family who "ploughed the land and sailed the seas" in the early 18th century.
Crake, E. E. [Edward Ebenezer] (1842-1915)
In Mortal Peril: A Story of the Great Armada. Religious Tract Society, 1908. 213 pages
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
The Open Boat. Scribner's, June 1898.
Short story about four shipwreck survivors who set out for safety in a lifeboat. "The sternest, creepiest bit of realism ever penned".
Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure. McClure's Magazine, October 1897.
The story of The Open Boat told from the point of view of the Captain.
Cranston, Edward
A Matter of Duty [short stories]. Longmans, Green, 1943. 178 pages
Crawford, Iain (1922-2011)
The Burning Sea. Cassell, 1959. 218 pages
Saga of a WW II British rescue tug in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Crichton, Michael (1942-2008)
Pirate Latitudes. HarperCollins, 2009. 312 pages
Posthumous tale of pirates in The Caribbean set in 1665.
Crisp, Frank (1915-1996)
The Golden Quest: a seventeenth century tale of adventure. The Bodley Head, 1952. 272 pages
The Devil Diver. The Bodley Head, 1954. 247 pages
The Adventure of Whaling. Macmillan, 1954. 143 pages
Fazackerley's Millions. Stanley Paul, 1955. 192 pages
The Chandu Men. Stanley Paul, 1955. 192 pages
The Treasure of Barby Swin. Coward McCann, 1955. 215 pages
Maori Jack's Monster. Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. 190 pages
Young man solves a Marie Celeste type mystery
Dirk Rogers Adventures
The Sea Robbers. Bodley Head, 1949. 215 pages
The Haunted Reef. Bodley Head, 1950. 231 pages
The Java Wreckmen. Coward-McCann, 1956. 248 pages
The Manila Menfish. Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. 244 pages
The crew of the Sulawesi pick up the body of a diver who has been shot dead with an arrow through his heart
The Sea Ape. Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. 190 pages
The Demon Wreck. Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. 160 pages
The Giant of Jembu Gulf. Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 160 pages
The Ice Divers. Hodder & Stoughton, 1960. 126 pages
Rescue of two Arctic Scientists
The Coral Wreck. Jonathan Cape, 1964. 160 pages
The Sanguman. Jonathan Cape, 1965. 160 pages
Crockett, Sherman
Two American boys aboard a submersible. Hurst, 1917. 305 pages
The adventures of two American schoolboys aboard an Allied submarine searching for marauding German submarines and Greek blockade gun-runners during World War I.
Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879-1957)
The Loss Of The Jane Vosper. Dodd, Mead, 1936. 338 pages
The first 40 pages are afloat, the rest of the book solves the mystery.
Cross, John Keir (1914-1967)
The White Magic. Westhouse, 1947. 313 pages
The adventure of Jason Flower who was sent on the Grinnell Expedition to help search for missing explorer John Franklin
Blackadder: a tale of the days of Nelson as told by some of those who played parts in it : the various documents collected and edited by Stephen MacFarlane and the whole now presented for the first time in book form. F. Muller, 1950. 215 pages
Crouch, Archer Philip (1858-1934)
Nellie of the "Eight Bells". J. Long, 1908. 343 pages
"The Eight Bells" is a Portsmouth tavern frequented by sailors. We are taken to sea, catch a glimpse of Nelson, and witness Trafalgar
Cruts, Randy
Dive into Terror. Black Forest Press, 1995. 348 pages
The Islamic ibn Allah (ISA), a newly formed terrorist organization is in the process of uniting all terrorist factions worldwide. This new threat has split from Nidal's Black June and other heretic terrorist groups. Nick Cutter, a lieutenant in the United States Navy with the warfare specialty of SEAL, is recruited by an elite counter- terrorist team, the Terrorist Neutralization/Hostage Extraction Squad (TNHES or Tennis Team). His new mission, eliminate the most important cell of the ISA.
Cule, W. E. [William Edward] (1870-1944)
In the Secret Sea : [a tale of adventure in the South Atlantic]. Sheldon, 1934. 190 pages
Originally published as a serial in the Boy's Own Paper
Cullum, Ridgwell [pseud. Sidney Groves Burghard (1867-1943)]
Sheets in the Wind. J.B. Lippincott, 1932. 471 pages
Jock, tall red-haired Scottish baronet, who sails around the Horn on 'The Witch', a deep sea windjammer of the Demon Line, in order to lay bare a drug smuggling enterprise
Cummings, William G.
An Island Chronicle. Knopf, 1924. 302 pages
The lives of a Portuguese fishing village on a New England island
Passion and Glory. Knopf, 1925. 278 pages
A Massachusetts fisherman undergoes a profound religious experience denied to men of more sophisticated intelligence
Cupples, George (1822-1891)
The Green Hand : Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant [a sea story for boys]. G. Routledge and Sons, 1878. 448 pages
The Two Frigates, or Captain Bisset's legacy. G. Routledge and Sons, 1859. 387 pages
Captain Herbert. Chapman, 1864. 3 volumes
The Sunken Rock: A tale of the Mediterranean. Harper & Brothers, 1879. 81 pages
A spliced yarn : some strands from the life cable of Bill Bullen. Gibbins, 1899. 300 pages
Cupples, Anne Jane [aka Mrs. George Cupples] (1839-1896)
Norrie Seton, or, Driven to the Sea. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1869. 326 pages