Nautical & Marine Fiction

Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable

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Lucy Aikin


All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer…

The Three Midshipmen

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William Henry Giles Kingston


This is the start of a series of four books following three friends through their career in the navy. Terence, Jack and Alick first meet at …

Drake

Read by Cynthia Moyer


Alfred Noyes


Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of…

Blake of the "Rattlesnake"

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Frederick Thomas Jane


Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that f…

A Marriage at Sea

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William Clark Russell


Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of whi…

Atlantis

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Gerhart Hauptmann


Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery

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Jules Verne


This Verne adventure is indeed a mystery and also a satire on the Crusoe genre. Our characters are larger than life, as well they should be …

The Word of an Engineer

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James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…

The Ships that Won't Go Down

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Henry Lawson


Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …

The Merry Anne

Read by Betsie Bush


Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…

Biltmore Oswald

Read by Nigel Boydell


J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

Mardi Vol. 1

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Herman Melville


"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the …

The Beach of Dreams

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H. De Vere Stacpoole


Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow h…

Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Victor Hugo


The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island communit…

The Island of Appledore

Read by Roger Melin


Cornelia Meigs


Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it…

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

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Charles S. Brooks


We had hoped that our drama's scene might lie on a pirate ship at sea. We had wished for a swaying mast, full-set with canvas—a typhoon to s…

Cutlass and Cudgel

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George Manville Fenn


Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipma…

A Burnt Ship

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John Donne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.

The Last of the Vikings

Read by Kathrine Engan


Johan Bojer


In a small village on the coast of Northern Norway lives the Myran family. Father is a fisher man and is, in the eyes of the oldest son, lik…

The Wreck of the Corsaire

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William Clark Russell


This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck …

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