Authors Westerman
Westerman, John F.C. [Francis Cyril] (1901-1991)
Treasure Chest Island. Oxford University Press, 1932. 256 pages
Twelve Months to Win. Ward, Lock, 1933. 252 pages
The Secret Island. Ward, Lock, 1936. 256 pages
Westerman, Percy F. [Francis] (1876-1959)
Alan Carr series:
His First Ship. Blackie, 1936. 256 pages
Alan Carr is too young to be accepted by the Golden Line but the junior partner of Whatmough and Duvant, Mr. Dexter, manages to get him a job on the small coastal vessel called the Mary Rumbold. Alan begins the voyage in Boston, Lincolnshire and travels up to Dundee and then on to Thurso. He experiences many adventures and learns the harsh lessons of life at sea. On her last voyage to the breakers' yard the Mary Rumbold founders in a gale in the North Sea. Alan conducts himself well during the time of crisis which gains him a cadetship on the Golden Effort.
His Unfinished Voyage. Blackie, 1937. 255 pages
Cadet Alan Carr joins the Golden Effort in the port of Southampton for a voyage to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and then Montevideo in Uruguay but after a series of adventures trouble withe the main shaft followed by a collision mean that Alan's voyage ends in Cape Town.
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Cadet Alan Carr. Blackie, 1938. 255 pages
Cadet Alan Carr is appointed to the Golden Vanity currently in the port of London. The voyage takes him to Funchal in Madeira, Cape Town, where the cadets climb Table Mountain and get lost in a fog, and Auckland in New Zealand where Alan is caught in a terrific hailstorm whilst ashore. The ship the returns to the Atlantic and England by way of the Magellan Straits.
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In Eastern Seas. Blackie, 1939. 255 pages
Alan Carr is in Swaledale when he learns that he has to join the Golden Venture at Liverpool. The ship is stranded on the sands at Formby at the beginning of her voyage but is able to continue her voyage to the Panama Canal via the West Indies. It then proceeds to Yokohama and is involved in a tsunami after an earthquake. Finally they voyage to China before heading home.
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The War - and Alan Carr. Blackie, 1940. 254 pages
The S.S. Golden Venture is at sea when war is declared between Britain and Germany. After narrow scrapes with U-Boats the ship arrives safely in Cape Town where the cadets have a run ashore and unwittingly betray their next destination to a German spy. Lourenzo Marques contains a German freighter which has supposedly been interned by the Portuguese. However, it breaks out to sea where the Golden Venture overcomes her in conflict. Later Captain Harrington manages to outwit the German pocket battleship Graf Spee by pretending to be carrying a cargo of explosives.
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War Cargo. Blackie, 1941. 255 pages
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Alan Carr in the Near East. Blackie, 1942. 256 pages
The story of a Cadet's life and adventures aboard the S.S. Golden Venture during the World War.
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Alan Carr in the Arctic. Blackie, 1943. 255 pages
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Secret Convoy. Blackie, 1944. 224 pages
The S.S. Golden Crest is in dock in New York shortly after Pearl Harbour. Her holds and decks are converted to take ramps for Sherman Tanks intended for a secret destination on the other side of the Atlantic. The tanks are shipped in Chesapeake Bay and as part of a convoy they set off.
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Alan Carr in Command. Blackie, 1945. 224 pages
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By Luck and By Pluck. Blackie, 1946. 232 pages
This is the story of Dick Danesby and Tony Andrews, apprentices on the tramp Mulcaster, before, during and after the landings on "D" Day. Their skipper is the well-known Alan Carr. The Mulcaster was one of the ships destined to play a humble but essential part in the operations by being purposely sunk off the Beaches.
Sea Scouts Series:
The Scouts of Seal Island. Adam and Charles Black, 1913. 248 pages
The Sea Scouts of the "Petrel". Adam and Charles Black, 1914. 292 pages
Sea Scouts All: How the "Olivette" was won. Blackie, 1920. 256 pages
Sea Scouts Abroad: Further adventures of the "Olivette". Blackie, 1921. 255 pages
Sea Scouts Up-Channel. Blackie, 1922. 256 pages
The Boys of the "Puffin": a sea scout yarn. S. W. Partridge, 1925. 160 pages
The Sea Scouts of the "Kestrel": the story of a cruise of adventure & pluck in a small yacht on the English channel. Seeley, Service, 1926. 249 pages
A Mystery of the Broads. Blackie, 1930. 233 pages
Haunted Harbour. Blackie, 1937. 224 pages
Sea Scouts at Dunkirk. Blackie, 1941. 206 pages
Contraband. Blackie, 1949. 272 pages
The Missing Diplomat. Blackie, 1953. 222 pages
The "Dark Secret". Blackie, 1954. 251 pages
'Sea Scouts Alert!'. Blackie, 1955. 222 pages
Whatmough and Duvant Golden Line series:
A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine. Blackie, 1923. 256 pages
The hero is Peter Kelso (incidentally a motor-bike fanatic), who sails as a cadet on the Golden Vanity, a fully-rigged ship of 3200 tons. That first voyage, full of incident, makes a sailor of him and takes the reader through a series of experiences combining to make a first-rate yarns in the author's best and most popular style.
The Good Ship "Golden Effort". Blackie, 1924. 256 pages
Keith Harrington rescues a Mr. Whatmough from an attempted street robbery. Whatmough is the chief partner in the famous shipping line Whatmough, Duvant and Co and Keith is given his chance to become a cadet. He makes friends with Peter Kelso and Dusty Miller and joins the Golden Effort - one of the famous Golden line.
East in the "Golden Gain". Blackie and Son, 1925. 256 pages
The Luck of the "Golden Dawn". Blackie and Son, 1926. 256 pages
Chums of the "Golden Vanity". Blackie and Son, 1927. 255 pages
The Junior Cadet. Blackie, 1928. 255 pages
Junior Cadet Norman Mansell takes up his first post on the "Golden Pursuit" at Southampton Docks. His first voyage is to Philadelphia in the U.S.A. during which they suffer from both heavy fog and a tremendous storm. The lifeboat is launched to rescue the crew of a sinking French ship, General Sardinot. The voyage continues to Cape Town and Madagascar, where they experience a tidal wave, and then home via Port Sudan and the Suez Canal.
Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn". Blackie, 1929. 256 pages
Leslie Dexter, Cadet. Blackie, 1930. 255 pages
The Senior Cadet. Blackie, 1931. 255 pages
'All Hands to the Boats'. Blackie, 1932. 255 pages
The Phantom Submarine. Blackie, 1947. 256 pages
The "Golden Gleaner". Blackie, 1948. 272 pages
Angus Cross anxious to follow the example of his uncle, known as "Fiery Cross", and go to sea, is lucky enough to be accepted as a cadet by the owners of the famous "Golden Line". Certain events connected with the launching of the ship on which he has his first seafaring experiences cause the superstitious to shake their heads, but on the whole the voyage of the Golden Gleaner is not unlucky, though certainly eventful.
Working their Passage. Blackie, 1951. 256 pages
Phil Pryor and Jack Desmond, Sea Scouts, set out, despite a stiffish head wind, to sail the Scouts' dinghy ten miles to her "home port" and ran into trouble. Their little craft was swamped, and they were lucky, with the help of a lifebelt, to manage to reach the precarious safety of a buoy. From this they were rescued, none too soon, by the "Golden Gleaner". Thanks to various fortunate circumstances, they found themselves installed as more or less unofficial cadets, and completed the voyage with the ship that had saved their lives.
Round the World in the "Golden Gleaner". Blackie, 1952. 253 pages
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Held in the Frozen North. Blackie, 1956. 222 pages
John Cloche series:
At Grips with the Swastika. Blackie, 1940. 319 pages
Fighting for Freedom. Blackie, 1941. 316 pages
Destroyer's Luck. Blackie, 1942. 223 pages
Sub-Lieutenant John Cloche. Blackie, 1943. 200 pages
'Engage the Enemy Closely'. Blackie, 1944. 200 pages
'Operations Successfully Executed'. Blackie, 1945. 200 pages
Return to Base. Blackie, 1946. 999 pages
The Mystery of the Key. Blackie and Son, 1948. 288 pages
John Cloche, his many war-time sea adventures behind him, is at rather a loose end when he has the chance of making one of a party which, onboard a former trawler, set out to try their luck at sponge-getting. The company of the Dream of Devon is a mixed one, but every man has had wide experience, and under Jimmy Ellicot, owner of the craft, they pull well together. It is well they do so, for they encounter emergencies which call for mutual trust and combined effort.
Marine Salvage & Treasure series:
The Treasure of the "San Philipo". Boy's Own Paper, 1916. 248 pages
The Salving of the "Fusi Yama" : A post-war story of the sea. Nisbet & Co, 1921. 288 pages
A riveting tale including an element of desperate rivalry, sea-plane flying, diving, a hurricane, and all the incidental thrills inseparable from a quest for sunken treasure.
The Treasure of the Sacred Lake. C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. 223 pages
Captain Blundell's Treasure. Blackie and Son, 1927. 320 pages
Rivals of the Reef. Blackie, 1929. 320 pages
Captain Fosdyke's Gold. Blackie, 1932. 319 pages
Midshipman Webb's Treasure. Blackie, 1937. 319 pages
Wrested from the Deep. Blackie, 1954. 283 pages