Authors F - Fe
Fabricius, Johan Wigmore (1899-1981)
Java Ho!: The Adventures of Three Boys Amid Fire, Storm and Shipwreck. Coward McCann, 1931. 358 pages
Translation of De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (1924). Off the Sumatra coast, a Dutch ship explodes, and three young survivors manage to reach the coast and set off to reach the Dutch colony of Batavia
Fabry, Joseph B. (1909-1999)
Swing shift : Building the Liberty ships. Strawberry Hill, 1982. 238 pages
Fictionalized dialogue reveals the human side of a shipyard gang which built Liberty ships at Permanente Metals Richmond [Calif. ] Shipyard, particularly the ROBERT E. PEARY, built in a record four days in November 1942.
Falkner, John Meade (1858-1932)
Moonfleet. Edward Arnold, 1898. 305 pages
Fifteen-year-old orphan gets caught with smugglers in Moonfleet, England, which leads to complications impelling him into a search for the cursed Mohune treasure. For 19th century young readers -- or 20th century adults that don't need sex to enjoy a plotline. Young readers today would probably find it too difficult.
Farnol, Jeffery (1878-1952)
Black Bartlemy's Treasure. Little, Brown, 1920. 368 pages
Martin Conisby, embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda, escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England, determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon, who was the cause of his father's death and his own ill- treatment. Broken in body and spirit, he arrives home just in time to save from the hands of robbers a beautiful girl, Lady Joan Brandon, the daughter of the man whom he has sworn to punish. In a tavern he meets a pal, Adam Penfeather, who unfolds to him the story of Black Bartlemy, an infamous pirate, and his treasure buried on an island--treasure of fabuous value that has been the dream and hope of roving adventurers along the Spanish Main for many years.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance. Little, Brown, 1921. 331 pages
A classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main, featuring the female pirate, Captain Jo, this continuation of "Black Bartelmy's Treasure" picks up the plot three years later.
Sir John Dering. Little, Brown, 1922. 443 pages
Pirate tale
Winds of Chance. Little, Brown, 1934. 373 pages
Pirate tale featuring an English girl, Ursula Revell. U.K. title Winds of Fortune
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer : his early exploits, being a curious and intimate relation of his tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his journal and pages from his ship's log. Sampson Low, Marston, 1940. 344 pages
Fills out details mentioned in passing in Black Bartlemy's Treasure
Farrell, F. L.
Surface Raider : The story of the sinking of the Graf Spee. John Spencer, 1957. 162 pages
Routine novel of the pursuit of the German pocket-battleship GRAF SPEE by British cruisers across the South Atlantic to the showdown off Montevideo in December of 1939. Told in the first person by a seaman in the B-turret of HMS AJAX. A Badger Book. Similar to A.F. Barton's Those Who Serve and John T. Robertson's Corvette Patrol
Fast, Howard (1914-2003)
Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel : and other stories of a Young Nation. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1945. 283 pages
Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, 1927. 349 pages
The title refers to the annoying people around whom the novel centers. Most of the story takes place on a short cruise from New Orleans.
Turnabout. Saturday Evening Post, March 5, 1932.
Short story: an American aviator in World War I who befriends a British torpedo-boat pilot and comes to see the war from a perspective that's less remote and abstract than that of the one he had as an aerial bomber. The story was the inspiration for Howard Hawks' 1933 film "Today We Live".
Felsen, Gregor [Henry Gregor] (1916-1995)
Navy Diver. E.P. Dutton, 1942. 223 pages
Submarine Sailor. E. P. Dutton, 1943. 208 pages
With a 32 page supplement of submarine photographs.
Some Follow the Sea. E. P. Dutton, 1944. 192 pages
WW II convoy life in the North Atlantic and Murmansk Run. For young readers.
Felton, Harold W. [William] (1902-1991)
Bowleg Bill : Seagoing Cowpuncher. E.M. Hale, 1957. 174 pages
Mike Fink, Best of the Keelboatmen, being a Revealing and Trustworthy Account of Events in the Life of the Renowned Riverman. Dodd, Mead, 1960. 194 pages
True Tall Tales of Stormalong : Sailor of the Seven Seas. Prentice-Hall, 1968. 64 pages
Fender, J. E. (1942- )
Geoffrey Frost
The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost : being an account of the life and times of Geoffrey Frost, mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as faithfully translated from the Ming Tsun chronicles, and diligently compared with other contemporary histories. University Press of New England, 2002. 297 pages
Audacity, Privateer Out of Portsmouth : Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as Faithfully Translated from the Ming Tsun Chronicles and Diligently Compared with other Contemporary Histories. University Press of New England, 2003. 298 pages
Our lives, our fortunes : continuing the account of the life and times of Geoffrey Frost, mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as faithfully translated from the Ming Tsun chronicles, and diligently compared with other contemporary histories. University Press of New England, 2004. 309 pages
On the spur of speed : Continuing the account of the life and times of Groffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as faithfully translated from the Ming Tsun chronicles, and incorporating an account of Joseph Frost's and Juby's conduct on Lake Champlain, all dilegently compared with other contemporary histories. University Press of New England, 2005. 246 pages
The Lucifer cypher : continuing the account of the life and times of Geoffrey Frost, mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as faithfully translated from the Ming Tsun chronicles, and recounting the employment of a water machine designed by David Bushnell, all diligently compared with other contemporary histories. Broadsides, 2006. 262 pages
Fenn, George Manville (1831-1909)
Sail Ho! or, A boy at sea. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893. 375 pages
Young Alison Dale's captain was not a pleasant man, and the crew mutiny, led by the half-French Jarette, and take over the ship. Eventually the drunken mutineers accidentally set fire to the vessel, and flee it. But the officers and passengers, previously cast adrift, come back and manage to put the fire out. The mutineers who have not gone far return and in the ensuing battle Jarette is killed.
The ocean cat's-paw : the story of a strange cruise. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1904. 510 pages
The adventures of a young boy on his uncle's ship.
Fenner, Phyllis Reid [editor] (1899-1982)
Pirates, Pirates, Pirates: Stories of cutlasses and corsairs, buried treasure and buccaneers, ships and swashbucklers. Watts, 1951. 287 pages
For young readers. Two chests of treasure / Merritt P. Allen -- Turn and turn about / Rupert Sargent Holland -- The capture of a brig / Stephen Meader -- Pirate gold / Charles Coppock -- Augustus, pirate / LeGrand -- Tom Chist and the treasure box / Howard Pyle -- The pirate rat / Jean Muir -- Cap'n Ezra, privateer / James D. Adams -- Blackbeard / Anne Malcomson -- Back in treasure island / Harold A. Calahan -- Mutineers be hanged / John F. Hinternhoff -- The pirates of Charles Town Harbor / Rupert Sargent Holland -- Black falcon / Armstrong Sperrry -- The Yankee captain in Patagonia / Charles Finger.
Fenwick, Kenneth (1902-1961)
Coral Seas. A Romance of 1942. Hutchinson, 1943. 176 pages
Via Murmansk. Hutchinson, 1944. 159 pages
The Far-Off Ships. Hutchinson, 1946. 208 pages
Fernald, John
Destroyer from America. J. Cape, 1942. 127 pages
A fictionized account of the voyages of one destroyer taken over by the British, and a vivid picture of what the naval heroes of England, or of any nation, actually experience.
Feuchtwanger, Lion (1884-1958)
Proud Destiny. Viking, 1947. 625 pages
Intrigue, wit and folly involved in getting France to support the American rebels in 1776. Translation of Waffen für Amerika.
Feuille, Frank, III (1917-1984)
The Cotton Road. W. Morrow, 1954. 320 pages
Confederate blockade runners operating out of Texas