Collingwood: 143 books

H.M.S. Europa. I had just dismounted before the rather imposing main entrance to Delamere Hall, situate close to the west Dorset coast, and had handed over my horse to Tom Biddlecome, the groom who had accompanied me in my before-breakfast ride down to the beach for my morning dip, when my father appeared...

WHAT HAPPENED ON THE PERICLES. “You, Thompson, go down and send the second mate up to me. Tell him to leave whatever he is doing and to come up here at once. I want to speak to him,” growled Captain Fisher of the steamer Pericles, turning, with a menacing expression, to the grizzled old quartermaster...

WILLIAM'S SILENT FLUTE. The Maidens small Pipkin, THE HAIRY RING, The Thing that's in his Breeches, Queen of the Wrigglewell-Islands, Sal, beneath thy Smock, Nothing but regular out and outers! FANNY HILL'S RECITER The Silent Flute air — The Coronation As William late with Polly sat, They talk'd of amorous blisses

Excerpt: ...a lesson in good manners. What do you want? Why do you stand there staring at me like an idiot? If you have anything to say, please say it at once, and get about your duty.

THE “MERCURY” APPEARS. This is a yarn of the days when the clipper sailing-ship was at the zenith of her glory and renown; when she was the recognised medium for the transport of passengers—ay, and, very frequently, of mails between Great Britain and the Colonies; and when steamers were, comparatively...

19th century sea adventure novel.

A young shipwrecked man and a young woman learn to cope with hardships and bad luck.  Romantic adventure at its finest.

Robert Danes wants more. In his late twenties, he has already enlarged the wealth to which his childhood accustomed him, but something is missing. Then, like a revelation, Robert is enraptured by Alice: a beautiful ingénue, their love flowers so strongly that it will bind them together in heartbreaking...

19th century sea adventure novel.