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• Ships -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Generall sailing-orders according to which masters as have a mind to saile are to ruled by. (Rotterdam, : by Isaac van Lochem, bookseller in the Milstreete, by order of Their Lordships, the Lords of the Admirality upon the Maze., [1692?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in addition to sundry good times, they learn somewhat of the early history of their country (Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1880), by Richard Markham, Frank Beard, Milton J. Burns, George F. Swain, Avery & Co Rand, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whaler's last cruise (Crosby and Nichols ;, 1864), by R. M. Ballantyne, Oliver Selwyn Felt, Allen and Farnham, and Crosby and Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1900), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wonder-ship (T.Y. Crowell & Company, 1902), by Sophie Swett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A master of craft (Methuen, 1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronological list of the officers conducting British maritime discoveries and surveys : together with the names of the vessels employed from the earlier times until 1900 (London : Printed for Her Majesty's stationery office by Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1900, 1900), by Thomas Henry Tizard and Eyre & Spottiswoode (page images at HathiTrust)
• A midshipman in the Pacific : his adventures on whaler, trader and frigate (Grosset & Dunlap, 1904), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, G. A. Williams, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and the enchanted isles (Press of the Readers Club, 1942), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Cap'n George Fred" himself (Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928), by George Fred Tilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Within the tides; tales. (Doubleday, Page & co., 1925), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handleiding ten dienste van H.H. Gezagvoerders en stuurlieden (Albrecht, 1925), by Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segel am Horizont (Verlag Die Schmiede, 1925), by Rudolf Leonhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Budd : and other prose pieces (Constable and Company, Ltd., 1924), by Herman Melville and Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)

• Captain Ben's book : a record of things which happened to Capt. Benjamin J. Willard, pilot and stevedore, during some sixty years on sea and land (Lakeside Press, 1895), by Benjamin J. Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography (Little, Brown, and Company, 1882), by R. B. Forbes, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gold : A play in four acts, by Eugene O'Neill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Captain Mary Miller : A drama, by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Narrow Corner (c1932), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dialstone Lane, by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Dialstone Lane (London: G. Newnes, 1904), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Master of Craft (c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• A Master of Craft (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org
• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Persuasion (based on the 1906 Stoneleigh edition, with added illustrations), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Persuasion (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1882), by Jane Austen, trans. by Madame Letorsay (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A son of the sun (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912), by Jack London, Clifford W. Ashley, Anton Otto Fischer, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persuasion (Dent ;, 1909), by Jane Austen and C. E. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Captain Grief (The World Publishing Company, 1954), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Janet of the dunes (Little, Brown, and Company, 1908), by Harriet T. Comstock, Carle Michel Boog, S.J. Parkhill & Co, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salthaven (C. Scribner's sons, 1909), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northanger Abbey : and Persuasion (John Murray, Albemarle-street, 1818), by Jane Austen, Charles Roworth, John Murray, and Henry Thomas Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-wolf (Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company ;, 1915), by Jack London, W. J. Aylward, Macmillan & Co, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-wolf (Grosset & Dunlap, publishers, 1906), by Jack London, W. J. Aylward, Berwick & Smith, J.S. Cushing & Co, Norwood Press, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persuasion. (R. Bentley, 1870), by Jane Austen and Richard Bentley (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-wolf (The Macmillan Company, 1904), by Jack London, W. J. Aylward, Decorative Designers (Firm), Norwood Press, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typhoon (Doubleday, Page, 1922), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Gault; being the exceedingly private log of a sea-captain (R. M. McBride & co., 1918), by William Hope Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waiting for the signal; a novel (The Schulte publishing co., 1897), by Henry O. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• A master of craft (Methuen, 1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and the enchanted isles (Press of the Readers Club, 1942), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Within the tides; tales. (Doubleday, Page & co., 1925), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Budd : and other prose pieces (Constable and Company, Ltd., 1924), by Herman Melville and Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heritage of the sea, by W. R. Bethel, illust. by Robert A. Graef (Gutenberg ebook)
• Salvage—extra special, by Holman Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Code, by Frank Richardson Pierce (Gutenberg ebook)
• "In Sargasso." Missing, a romance : Narrative of Capt. Austin Clark, of the tramp steamer "Caribas," who, for two years, was a captive among the savage people of the Seaweed Sea, by Julius Chambers (Gutenberg ebook)
• The closed door, by John Fleming Wilson and Mary Ashe Miller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The skipper knows best, by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Salvage, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Typhon (in French), by Joseph Conrad, trans. by André Gide (Gutenberg ebook)
• To the lights, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Honor of Thieves: A Novel, by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Black Pawl, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Dochter van de Zeekapitein: Een Histories Verhaal (in Dutch), by D'Arbez (Gutenberg ebook)
• His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau, by Samuel Merwin, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Merry Anne, by Samuel Merwin, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cursed, by George Allan England, illust. by Modest Stein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía (in Spanish), by Pío Baroja (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ο Σάνσελλορ (in Greek), by Jules Verne, trans. by Panagiotes I. Phermpos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ο δεκαπενταετής πλοίαρχος (in Greek), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kapteeni Grantin löytyminen (in Finnish), by Jules Verne, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kapteeni Grantin lapset (in Finnish), by Jules Verne, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kapteeni Grantia etsimässä (in Finnish), by Jules Verne, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)
• De kinderen van Kapitein Grant, derde deel (van 3): De Stille Oceaan (in Dutch), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• De kinderen van Kapitein Grant, tweede deel (van 3): Australië (in Dutch), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• De kinderen van Kapitein Grant, eerste deel (van 3): Zuid-Amerika (in Dutch), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (I Slavelænker) (in Danish), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, by Holman Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Janet of the Dunes, by Harriet T. Comstock (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Blue Pavilions, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul, by Holman Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Las inquietudes de Shanti Andia (in Spanish), by Pío Baroja (Gutenberg ebook)

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