Non-categorised naval novels

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' The Price was High ' was inspired by the admiration, with which the author, Commander Gilbert Hackforth-Jones in this vnovel written in 1946, regards the R.N.V.R. Officer. It is the story of a young Englishman who did not fit into pre-war London but seized his opportunity on joining the Navy and proved himself to be a seaman of exceptional powers.
Death of an Admiral
Sink the Prince of Wales
Click here to go to Keith H. Vignoles' " A Prisoner of Portchester " book page at camberpete.co.uk set in the Portsmouth/Chichester area during the Napoleonic Wars !
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS by Erskine Childers with a historical postscript by R. M. Bowker - Now here is the book just as Erskine Childers wrote it, but with real charts and photographs ; followed by giving the facts which lie behind the book, together with illustrations, culminating in a description of Dulcibella's sea today, three- quarters of a century later, with notes on how the sands have changed
A sweeping and epic adventure set during the momentous first clashes of the Napoleonic Wars. 'Under Enemy Colours' is a masterpiece in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell. Admiral on Horseback
Jim Brady joined the Royal Australian Navy as a raw recruit, and the story of his lower deck life was told in Jim Brady, Leading Seaman. In this second volume of the projected trilogy we meet him as a Lieutenant Commander, commanding Circe, a destroyer on a war footing. The rapidity of his promotion, however well-deserved, brings its own problems, and Brady remains far too conscious of the fact that he has risen from the lower deck, and fancies that his seniors and his juniors resent his promotion.
 Chenies by Taffrail

Churchill's Gold HMS Marathon Nimitz Class Talleyman Run Out the guns All of One Company The Far Side of the World