Authors Hea - Henr
Heagney, H. J. [Harold Jerome] (1890- )
Blockade Runner. Longmans, Green, 1939. 187 pages
Aboard the C.S.S. Robert E. Lee
Healey, David
The Sea Lord Chronicles:
First Voyage. Intracoastal Media, 2012. 312 pages
When 14-year-old Alexander Hope is sent by his stingy uncle to become a junior officer in the Royal Navy, he has never seen the sea or been very far from the ramshackle manor house where he grew up. He's also never seen a gryphon. There are high expectations for Alexander, whose famous ancestor was Sir Algernon Hope, a sea elemental who defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion.
Ship of Spies. Intracoastal Media, 2014. 166 pages
Alexander is assigned to catch the thief who stole something mysterious from the American diplomat aboard the HMS Resolution. His task is made difficult because crew and even some of the officers are suspicious and jealous of his new powers as an elemental who can command the sea.
Heandi [pseud. Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld-Forester (1899-1961)]
From Snotty to Sub. Heinemann, 1918. 142 pages
A midshipman becomes a sub-lieutenant
Heatter, Basil (1918-2009)
The Dim View. Farrar, Straus, 1946. 256 pages
PT skipper fears that he has lost his nerve after being injured in the South Pacific, but must again face the Japanese from the deck of his PT boat.
The Captain's Lady. Farrar, Straus, 1950. 244 pages
A discontented war veteran sets up a charter-boat business in an unfriendly Florida town. While bucking a murderous boat monopoly, he makes friends with a crippled boy, a couple of old soaks and a red-headed girl
The Better Part of Valor. Doubleday, 1964. 324 pages
A romantic triangle set on PT boats in the early days of the war with the Japanese: Mark Hammond, a war correspondent; Wynn Savage, an insanely, compulsively brave PT boat officer; and Lud, the lovely girl who married Savage out of pity and then fell in love with Hammond
Hedben, Mark (1916-1991)
A Pride of Dolphins. Michael Joseph, 1974. 299 pages
Deadly Gas-X is stored in submarine set to be scuttled. Bad guys attempt to hijack said sub
Heggen, Thomas (1919-1949)
Mr. Roberts. Houghton Mifflin, 1946. 221 pages
US Navy transport RELUCTANT as it sails from Tedium to Apathy -- with occasional side trips to Monotony and Ennui -- in the back waters of WW II in the Pacific. Novel focuses on the attempts by a reserve lieutenant to defy his mustang captain by transfering off the ship to a combat position. Later an award winning play and film.
Helprin, Mark (1947- )
The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story. Overlook, 2023. 507 pages
A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy.
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
After the Storm. Hearst's International/Cosmopolitan, May 1932.
Short story. A poor Bahamian fisherman finds a sunken luxury yacht and tries unsuccessfully to scavenge it.
The Old Man and the Sea. Scribner, 1952. 93 pages
Cuban doesn't bring home the big fish.
Islands in the Stream. Scribner, 1970. 448 pages
Published posthumously. About an American painter who lives on Bimini. The early part of the book (set in the 1930s) contains some great sport fishing scenes. During WW II the painter and his boat are drafted in the service of American intelligence to track down survivors of a German submarine who are trying to escape.
Hennessy, Max [pseud. John Harris (q.v.)]
Kelly "Ginger" Maguire trilogy:
The Lion at Sea. Hamilton, 1977. 314 pages
From 1911 through WW I, Maguire serves on armored cruiser HUGUENOT, gets torpedoed on CRESSY, stranded in Antwerp in 1914, captured when his submarine is sunk during Gallipoli, and sees action on destroyer MORDANT at Jutland.
The Dangerous Years. Hamilton, 1978. 292 pages
Follows our hero through the years between WW I and the Spanish Civil War. He has adventures in Russia during the Civil War, Shanghai, and in the Red Sea during the Abyssinian Crisis.
Back to Battle. Hamilton, 1979. 297 pages
Ginger Maguire, now the most decorated man in the Royal Navy, commands a destroyer in Iberian waters during the Spanish Civil War, fights at Narvik, Matapan and Crete, and commands an escort group on the Murmansk run in action remarkably similar to the Battle of the Barents Sea.
Henrick, Richard P. (1951- )
Silent Warriors. Kensington, 1985. 381 pages
Alexander Korsakov, captain of Russia's most technologically advanced submarine, is shocked to learn that he is to spearhead a massive nuclear first strike against the Americans. The captain of a U.S. attack sub, out of radio contact and without orders, must engage in an epic undersea battle--or risk witnessing the shattering end of the world above.
Counterforce. Kensington, 1985. 415 pages
Inside the world's most advanced submarine, Vulkan, a man holds a list of U.S. targets--each one will mean millions of casualties and a world thrown into nuclear chaos. Capt. Cooksey knows that his elusive prey can be brought down only one way--betrayal. Someone within the Russian hierarchy is about to give the Americans the one tool they need to stop the Vulkan.
The Phoenix Odyssey. Kensington, 1986. 364 pages
Receiving a sudden War Alert while on a routiene patrol, the crew of the Trident submarine USS Phoenix is suddenly cut off of all communication--including the one cancelling the War Alert--and reemerges with the wrong ideas.
Flight of the Condor. Kensington, 1987. 381 pages
America's most advanced defensive surveillance satellite is hurtling towards Earth, leaving the United States susceptible to a surprise attack from the Soviet Union. As the Russians prepare to deliver a lethal nuclear blow, the fate of humanity will be fought on two battlefields--beneath the ocean and in outer space.
When Duty Calls. Kensington, 1988. 415 pages
Russians put first military laser on line in Siberia, so SEAL team has to go in by submarine, then destroy site.
Beneath the Silent Sea. Kensington, 1988. 414 pages
The Chinese have launched their most lethal submarine in a clandestine attack on both the U.S. and the Soviet Union-- just as peace talks between these two nations have begun. Now, to stop the Maoist fanatics, two world powers about to come together in peace must join forces in war. As they race toward a showdown in the perilous ocean depths, the ultimate thermonuclear endgame is about to be played for the highest stakes of all.
Cry of the Deep. Kensington, 1989. 416 pages
30-year-old US sub SWORDFISH stands between gigantic Russian sub and nuclear warfare with US.
Under the Ice. Kensington, 1989. 383 pages
Airplane carrying the Soviet premier goes down in the arctic, and US and USSR subs race to the area.
Sea Devil. Kensington, 1990. 382 pages
Renegade Admiral Igor Starobin leads a new submarine to penetrate and destroy a U.S. Navy base that is the strategic core of NATO's defense advantage. The formidable "Sea Devil" becomes locked in a desperate battle against the super attack sub USS BOWFIN, under the command of Pentagon special investigator Brad Mackenszie.
The Golden U-Boat. Kensington, 1991. 384 pages
Nazi U-boat sinks with secret weapon; 50 years later, fugitive SS officer salvages it. A US sub must deal with the Nazi and a Russian boomer.
Sea of Death. Kensington, 1992. 350 pages
The ultimate biological weapon lies in the hands of a Ninja warrior with a mad dream of reestablishing Japan as the world's mightiest military superpower. Only an obsolete diesel-powered submarine manned by a crew of specially trained computer-oriented nuke submariners can stop him.
Dive to Oblivion. Kensington, 1993. 352 pages
When a nuclear-powered submarine vanishes, commander Thomas Moore uncovers a trail of terror that leads to a paranoid and ruthless cabal of hardline Communists.
Ecowar. HarperCollins, 1993. 338 pages
Dr. Peter Kraft, an expert in dolphin communication, is ordered to journey on the attack class vessel, the USS Chicago, to investigate strange reports of a marauding sea monster in the depths of the Kuril Trench.
Ice Wolf. Harper, 1994. 337 pages
Nuclear attack sub USS SPRINGFIELD encounters mysterous rogue U-boat with ex-Nazi aboard, seeking legendary lost treasure in the arctic.
Crimson Tide. Avon, 1995. 239 pages
Aboard nuclear sub USS ALABAMA when orders come to launch preemptive nuclear strike. Is order real, a test, or a mistake? It's impossible to confirm, skipper wants to launch, and exec says no. The author's novelization of his screenplay.
Attack on a Queen. Avon, 1997. 368 pages
Terrorists seize the ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth II, hosting an economic conference of heads of top industrial countries. Two brothers try to outwit the terrorists, Thomas Kellogg of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Vincent Kellogg of the Secret Service.