Authors Cos - Cup
Costain, Thomas B. (1885-1965)
For My Great Folly. Putnam's, 1942. 504 pages
English pirate John Ward fights Spaniards, London underworld, and gentlemen swordsmen in the early 1600s.
High Towers. Doubleday, 1949. 403 pages
Multi-generational family saga, mostly set in French Canada, including scenes set along the Mississippi and New Orleans.
Costello, F. H. [Frederick Hankerson] (1851-1921)
Master Ardick Buccaneer : a South American romance. D. Appleton, 1896. 311 pages
Under the Rattlesnake Flag. Estes & Lauriat, 1898. 302 pages
On Fighting Decks in 1812. Dana Estes, 1899. 385 pages
A Tar of the Old School. Dana Estes, 1900. 367 pages
Nelson's Yankee Boy : the adventures of a plucky young New Englander at Trafalgar and elsewhere, and later in the war of 1812. Henry Holt, 1904. 293 pages
Cottrell, Dorothy (1902-1957)
The Silent Reefs. Morrow, 1953. 241 pages
Two brothers investigate a motorship lost in the West Indies with all hands in a sea as calm as glass
Couch, Dick (1943- )
Pressure Point. Putnam, 1992. 287 pages
Contemporary USN SEAL adventure.
Silent Descent. Putnam, 1993. 298 pages
A US diesel sub loaded with SEAL Team Two sneaks stealthily into the Soviet Arctic to see if they can successfully rescue a CIA mole from the frozen Kola Penninsula where she's investigating an entrepreneurial Russian colonel who's selling off the nuclear weaponry he's supposed to be dismantling to any tin-pot dictator or rogue state with the cash. The colonel isn't in the racket for personal gain, he's just trying to keep his men paid and prevent the collapse of his command.
Rising wind. Naval Institute Press, 1996. 326 pages
Chilling thriller that raises disturbing questions about leftover World War II animosities, as a Japanese terrorist group captures a key US chemical weapons facility in the Pacific and takes 1,000 American hostages.
Couch, G. Northwood
Skipper Morgan : a tale. Gramol, 1947. 160 pages
Adventure story set in South Wales
Coulter, Stephen (1914-1986)
Threshold. Morrow, 1964. 215 pages
An explosion brings the HMS Uranus to rest on the ocean floor seven miles inside Russian territorial waters. There is seven days of oxygen left for the twenty nine survivors. At 10 Downing St., the survivors count for little in what is debated as an embarrassing accident that may hurt international relations because the sub was in fact on a secret reconnaissance mission. The sub's commander is faced with a mutinous crew led by the Communist saboteur who planned the wreck.
Cowper, E. E. [Edith Elise Cadogan] (1859-1933)
The Brown Bird and her Owners : a story of Adventure off the South Coast. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1900. 256 pages
Calder Creek : a story of Smuggling on the South Coast. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1903. 246 pages
Lady Fabia, a story of adventure on the South Coast in 1805. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1909. 221 pages
Three Girls on a Yacht. Cassell, 1910. 343 pages
The Moonrakers, a story of Smugglers in the New Forest in 1747. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910. 256 pages
The Crew of the "Silver Fish". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1914. 223 pages
Three Sailor Girls. Henry Frode, 1916. 288 pages
Maids of the “Mermaid.” A story of Adventure on the Coast of England. Blackie, 1919. 288 pages
Ann's Great Adventure. Blackie, 1923. 320 pages
Girls on the Gold Trail. A story of Strange Adventures in the Northlands. Nelson, 1924. 327 pages
White Wings to the Rescue. Blackie, 1924. 320 pages
The Holiday School. Cassell, 1928. 215 pages
Camilla's Castle. Blackie, 1928. 255 pages
The Forbidden Island. Blackie, 1929. 208 pages
That Joyous Adventure. Nelson, 1929. 95 pages
The Fifth Form Adventurers. Cassell, 1929. 215 pages
The Invincible Fifth. Cassell, 1930. 215 pages
Cox, Patrick G.
A Baltic Affair. Indiego Publishing , 2013. 370 pages
Captain Petroc Gray, commander of the ship-rigged sloop of war, HMS Kestrel, is drawn into diplomacy, intrigue, and espionage when he rescues the Freiherr von Dieffenbach and his family off the island of Rügen in the Baltic. The Freiherr is an important and valuable connection in the struggle to beat the Napoleonic Continental blockade of British trade, and his daughter, Silke, is a delightful young woman with a quick wit, brilliant intelligence, and a keen eye for observing the events unfolding around them.
Cozzens, James Gould (1903-1978)
S.S. San Pedro. Harcourt, Brace, 1931. 136 pages
An ocean liner bound for Argentina with a million dollars in gold and a full passenger list founders in a storm.
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