Authors Hun - Hy
Hungerford, Edward Buell (1900-1988)
Fighting Frigate. Follett, 1947. 261 pages
The hero is a boy from one of the New England states who goes to sea and is immediately pressed into the RN. His struggle then centers on his goal of returning to a US ship to fight in the war of 1812. The USS CONSTITUTION and the BON HOMME RICHARD figure in the story.
Emergency Run. Wilcox & Follett, 1948. 263 pages
Sixteen-year-old Chad Harper joins the navy and sees the world as a seaman on the U.S.S. Oregon, famous battleship of the U.S. fleet during the Spanish-American War.
Escape to Danger. Wilcox & Follett, 1949. 282 pages
Nat Huntley escapes from the hardships of Mill Prison in England, only to become involved in the daring ventures of Captain John Paul Jones, the famous American seaman.
Forbidden Island. Wilcox, 1950. 256 pages
Fictionalization of the Perry expedition to Japan that uses the POV of twin brothers -- one shipwrecked off Okinawa and held in Japan, and the other a sailor that volunteered for Perry's expedition in an effort to rescue his brother. For young readers.
Hunt, E. Howard (Everette Howard) (1918-2007)
East of Farewell. Knopf, 1942. 270 pages
Convoys and their escort in the North Atlantic.
Limit of Darknesss. Random House, 1944. 227 pages
"A Novel about the Men of Henderson Field". 24-hours in the "life" of a Navy torpedo bomber squadron on Guadalcanal in 1943.
Hunt, Todd (1938- )
The Ship With a Flat Tire. Doubleday, 1964. 205 pages
An ensign, supply corps, reports aboard a ship that was to have been named for Carrie Nation, "But, with the confusion of the war and all that..." ended up as USS CARNATION, ASS-1. He is educated in the ways of the navy, as distinct from the ways of officer candidate and supply corps school. The ship is to be retired unless it gets some recognition and political backing. This makes the captain and XO nervous since careers do not advance from the deck of a sinking ship - however figuratively. The ensign, of course, saves the day by ingratiating himself and the ship to a crusty old senator. The "flat tire" reference comes from an attempt to doll the ship up as an ante-bellum river boat for some kind of festival and an inner tube deflates at exactly the wrong moment. PG rated for slapstick humor.
Hunter, John (1891-1961)
The White Phantom. Cassell, 1934. 254 pages
A supership is run by pirates, and an "aerofoil" piloted by the young protagonists is successful in foiling the baddies
Hunter, Seth [pseud. Paul Byers] (1954- )
Nathan Peake series:
The Time of Terror. Headline Review, 2008. 341 pages
In 1793, British navy commander Nathan Peake get his chance for action when France declares war on England and descends into the bloody madness of the Terror. Peake is entrusted with a mission to wreck the French economy by smuggling fake bank notes into Paris.
The Tide of War. Headline Review, 2009. 344 pages
Newly-promoted Captain Nathan Peake has been dispatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn, a ship with an already tragic history of mutiny and murder. While Peake settles in, the Revolutionary authorities in Paris send out the Virginie - the best 44-gun warship in the French fleet - on a secret mission to spread war, rebellion, and mayhem from the shores of Cuba to the swamps of the Mississippi Delta.
The Price of Glory. Headline Review, 2010. 346 pages
Captain Nathan Peake’s adventures continue as he charts a perilous course into the dangerous waters of post- Revolutionary Paris. There, he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history and their playmate, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Winds of Folly. Headline Review, 2011. 384 pages
1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent into the troubled waters of the Adriatic. His mission: to scourge the sea of pirates and turn the Serene Republic of Venice against Revolutionary France. But Nathan is soon drawn into a much more sinister web. At its heart two of the most feared women of the age: Emma Hamilton, the courtesan turned courtier, and the nun Caterina Caresini, uncrowned queen of Venice. And most feared of all, the mysterious agent of the Three Inquisitors, known as Il Diavolo, the Devil.
The Flag of Freedom. Headline Review, 2012. 384 pages
1797: Britain stands alone against the forces of Revolutionary France. A victorious French Army, led by the youthful Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised to invade Britain. And in his country's darkest hour, Captain Nathan Peake finds himself imprisoned by his own side on the Rock of Gibraltar - charged with treason. To prove his innocence Nathan must uncover the great deception that masks the French war aims. Is the great armada being assembled in Toulon bound for the shores of Great Britain - or Egypt? His secret mission to discover the truth about Napoleon's invasion plans will hurl him into two of the greatest battles of the 18th century.
The Spoils of Conquest. Headline Review, 2013. 400 pages
Admiral Nelson has sent Captain Nathan Peake on a desperate journey across the Middle East to convey a grim warning to British India. Bonaparte's army is poised to deliver a fatal blow to the source of Britain's wealth and power by marching overland to India. Arriving in Bombay, Nathan takes command of the East India Company's naval wing - the Bombay Marine - an under-armed and poorly crewed flotilla of sloops and gunboats. With these meagre resources he must stop the flow of French supplies to their Indian ally and protect the Company's trade from the pirates and privateers swarming in the Bay of Bengal. But when Nathan discovers the truth behind the East India Company's honorable facade he confronts some tough personal choices - and a crisis of conscience even more threatening than the enemy.
The Sea of Silence. Mcbooks, 2021. 328 pages
Trafalgar: The Fog of War. McBooks, 2022. 280 pages
The Force of Fate. McBooks, 2024. 296 pages
Huntington, Roland (1927- )
Sea of Darkness. Scribner, 1975. 255 pages
A novel about Columbus' young manhood, which carries him to middle age and the successful end of his six-year appeal to Isabella for three ships to cross the Atlantic
Huntington, H. S.
His Majesty's Sloop Diamond Rock. Houghton, Mifflin, 1904. 341 pages
Hutchinson, Horace G. [Gordon] (1859-1932)
A Friend of Nelson. Longmans, 1902. 299 pages
Fictionalization of Nelson's act of insubordination by turning a blind eye to the order to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen
Hyde, Lawrence (1914-1987)
Under the Pirate Flag. Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 196 pages
Captain Deadlock. Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 186 pages
Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright (1866-1944)
Captain Kettle series:
Houour of Theives. Chatto & Windus, 1895. 240 pages
Captain Kettle is a minor character here. When the series exploded in popularity, the novel was reprinted in 1902 as The Little Red Captain: an early adventure of Captain Kettle
Adventures of Captain Kettle. Donohue, 1898. 326 pages
Book of sea stories reprinted from PEARSON'S MONTHLY. Captain Kettle is an honest, simple, brave man who gets into some fairly tight scrapes (smuggling, revolution, and so on), mostly around South America; he is sometimes tempted to be unfaithful to Mrs. Kettle (who waits back home in South Shields) but always does the Right Thing. Fun stories.
The Further Adventures of Captain Kettle. C. Arthur Pearson, 1899. 315 pages
Later editions were published as A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
Captain Kettle K.C.B. C. Arthur Pearson, 1903. 294 pages
Later editions published as More Adventures of Captain Kettle
The Marriage of Captain Kettle. Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. 373 pages
Captain Kettle on the War-path. Methuen, 1916. 312 pages
Captain Kettle's Bit. Hodder & Stoughton, 1918. 283 pages
The Rev. Captain Kettle. George G. Harrap, 1925. 245 pages
President Kettle. Nash & Grayson, 1929. 286 pages
Mr. Kettle Third-Mate. Ward, Lock & Co., 1931. 288 pages
Captain Kettle, Ambassador. Ward, Lock & Co., 1932. 218 pages
Ivory Valley : an adventure of Captain Kettle. Ward, Lock & Co, 1936. 315 pages
Sandy Carmichael : a tale. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1892. 308 pages
The Captured Cruiser, or, Two Years from Land. Blackie, 1893. 288 pages
The Lost Continent. S. Hutchinson, 1900. 249 pages
Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer; his adventures, set to paper by Mary Laughan, a maid who through affection followed him to the West Indies and the Spanish main, acting as his secretary, he deeming her a male, though timid; which account is now put into more modern English. F.A. Stokes, 1900. 287 pages
Fictional account of Prince Rupert of Bohemia's piratical cruise in the Caribbean after the downfall of Charles I of England, of whom he was a staunch supporter.
McTodd. S. Grosset, 1903. 355 pages
The Trials of Commander McTurk. John Murrary, 1906. 348 pages