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• From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Archibald Webb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paul Jones, by Molly Elliot Seawell, illust. by Julian Oliver Davidson and Hermann Dudley Murphy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Before Vicksburg: The Gun-Boat Series, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank on a gun-boat (Cincinnati: R.W. Carroll & Co., 1865), by Harry Castlemon, illust. by Kilburn & Mallory (page images at Florida)
• Frank before Vicksburg (Cincinnati: R.W. Carroll & Co., 1869), by Harry Castlemon, illust. by Kilburn & Mallory (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of a sailor boy and tales of the sea and of the British Navy (London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1890), by William Martin (page images at Florida)
• Off to sea, or, The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his road to fame (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at Florida)

• Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England (2 volumes (American and British imprints), 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson, contrib. by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical, With Explanatory Plates (third edition; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by John Clerk, contrib. by Lord Rodney (page images at HathiTrust)
• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles of the world; great and decisive contests on the sea; causes and results of ocean victories and defeats, marine warfare and armament in all ages from the Greek and Persian conflict at Salamis ... to ... the Japan-Russia war. By Edward Shippen. (Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler Co., [c1905]), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles of the world: great and decisive contests on the sea. With an account of the Japan-China war and the recent battle of the Yalu; the growth, power, and management of our new Navy. (Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler, [1898]), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: (New Haven, G. W. Gorton, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles in the century [electronic resource] / (Toronto : Linscott, 1906), by Francis J. Higginson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American naval battles [electronic resource] : being a complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of the United States, from its establishment in 1794 to the present time : including the wars with France and with Tripoli, the late war with Great Britain and with Algiers, with an account of the attack on Baltimore and of the battle of New Orleans: with twenty elegant engravings representing battles, &c. (Boston : J.J. Smith, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our fighting services and how they made the Empire [electronic resource] / (London ; Toronto : Cassell, 1916), by Evelyn Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American naval battles [electronic resource] : being a complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of the United States, from its establishment in 1794 to the present time : including the wars with France and Tripoli, the late war with Great Britain and with Algiers, with an account of the attack on Baltimore and of the battle of New Orleans ; embellished with twenty elegant engravings representing battles, &c. (Boston : C. Gaylord, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• British battles on land and sea [electronic resource] : with a history of the fighting services and notes by the editor ; with 24 colour plates and over 500 other illustrations / (London ; Toronto : Cassell, 1915), by Evelyn Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Castore, e Polluce. (In Firenze : Nella stamperia de Sermartelli, MDCVIII [1608]), by Bartolomeo Sermartelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironclads in action: a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895, with some account of the development of the battleship in England. (Boston, Little Brown, 1897), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles of the world: great and decisive contests on the sea. With an account of the Japan-China war and the recent battle of the Yalu; the growth, power, and management of our new Navy. (Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler, [1898]), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maritime campaign of 1778 : a collection of all the papers relative to the operations of the English and French fleets : to which are added, strictures upon the publications made in France, by order of the Ministry, concerning the engagement on the 27th of July : illustrated with charts and plans, on six copper-plates / (London : Printed for William Faden, successor to the late T. Jefferies, geographer to the King, Charing Cross, 1778), by John Matthews and William Faden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of celebrated naval commanders / (London : Harding and Lepard, 1832), by Edward Hawke Locker and Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles, from 1744 to the peace in 1814, critically reviewed and illustrated. (London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824), by Charles Ekins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty famous naval battles : Salamis to Santiago / (New York ; Boston : T.Y. Crowell & company, [1899]), by Edward Kirk Rawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naval battles of the world; great and decisive contests on the sea, causes and results of ocean victories and defeats, marine warfare and armament in all ages, with an account of the Japan-China War and the recent battle of the Yalu; the growth, power and management of our new navy ... (Haverhill, Mass., J.C. Bryant, [c1898]), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous British war-ships, and their commanders by Walter Wood. (London : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1897), by Walter Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An order of Parliament with the consent of His Highness the Lord Protector, for a day of publike thanksgiving : within the cities of London and Westminster, the late lines of communication, and weekly bills of mortality, on Wednesday the third of June next; for the great success God hath been pleased to give the Navy of this Commonwealth under the command of General Blake against the Spainard. Together with a narrative of the same success, as it was communicated in a letter from the said General. (London : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field ..., 1657), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Scobell, John Field, Henry Hills, Robert Blake, and England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taming the Barbary pirates [electronic resource], or, With Decatur and Somers in the Mediterranean : the gallant exploits of Decatur and Somers in the "Lucky Little Enterprise" and "Nautilus" / (New York : McLoughlin Bros., c1908), by John De Morgan and McLoughlin Bros. pbl, illust. by Enos B. Comstock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting admirals. With portraits, and a frontispiece from a picture by H. W. Stagg. (London, Smith, Elder, 1910), by John Barnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four modern naval campaigns : historical, strategical and tactical / (London ; New York : Unit Library, 1902), by W. Laird Clowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting instructions, 1530-1816; ([London] Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1905), ed. by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval yarns. Letters and anecdotes; comprising accounts of sea fights and wrecks, actions with pirates and privateers, etc., from 1616 to 1831. (London, Gibbings, 1899), by William Henry Long (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nihon Teikoku kaijō kenryokushi kōgi / (Tōkyō : Shunʾyōdō, Meiji 37 [1904]), by Naganari Ogasawara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naval battles of the century ... (London, Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers; Philadelphia, Bradley-Garretson, 1903), by Francis John Higginson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ironclads in action; a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895, with some account of the development of the battleship in England. (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1898), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima. (Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1916), by John Richard Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous fighters of the fleet; glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy. (London, New York, Macmillan, 1904), by Edward Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naval yarns of sea fights and wrecks, pirates and privateers from 1616-1831 : as told by men of wars' men ... / (New York : F. P. Harper, 1899), by William H. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paul Jones, (New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Molly Elliot Seawell, Appleton Press. prt elt, and D. Appleton and Company. pbl, illust. by Julian Oliver Davidson and Hermann Dudley Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tattica mnelle grandi battaglie navali, da Temistocle a Ito ... Roma. (Roma : Forzani e c., tipografi del Senato, 1898), by Giuseppe Gavotti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Naval battles in the century / (Toronto and Philadelphia : The Linscott pub. co., 1906), by Francis John Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the blue sea, (New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Henry John Newbolt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous fighters of the fleet : glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy / (London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1907, c1904), by Edward Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The private war : being the truth about Gordon Traill : his personal statement / (New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1906), by Louis Joseph Vance and D. Appleton and Company. pbl, illust. by H. C. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Britannia triumphant: or, An account of the sea-fight and victories of the English nation, from the earliest times, down to the conclusion of the late war ... To which is prefixed a large introduction, containing the history of navigation, from the earliest accounts to the present time; with the lives of the most celebrated admirals. (London : Sold by R. James [etc.], 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of the fleet, captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire; (London : J. Lane; New York, J. Lane company, 1908), by Edward Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I will be a sailor : a book for boys / (Boston : Crosby and Nichols ; New York : O.S. Felt, 1863), by Louisa C. Tuthill, Nathan. egr Brown, John Andrew, Oliver Selwyn Felt, Crosby and Nichols. pbl, Bigelow & Co. str prt Welch, and Mass.) prt University Press (Cambridge, illust. by W. L Champney and J Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy ... (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. [etc., etc., 19--?]), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Batailles navales de la France; (Paris, Challamel ainé, 1867-68), by O. Troude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy; from A. D. 1000 to 1840. (London, A. H. Baily & co., 1842), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle : being a collection of the most interesting narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines, and other calamities incident to a life of maritime enterprise / (London : Printed and published by James Cundee, 1804-05), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la marine de tous les peuples depuis la plus haute antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. (Paris, A. André, 1824), by Auguste Jean Baptiste Bouvet de Cressé (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Manual of naval tactics : together with a brief critical analysis of the principal modern naval battles / (New York : D. Appleton, 1859), by James Harmon Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy. (London, H. G. Bohn, 1853), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1912), by John Richard Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy / (London : H.G. Bohn, 1858), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles of the world. Great and decisive contests on the sea; causes and results of ocean victories and defeats; marine warfare and armament in all ages; with an account of the Japan - China War and the recent battle of the Yalu. (Toronto, Ont., C.R. Paris, [1894]), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironclads in action; a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895, with some account of the development of the battleship in England. (London, S. Low, Marston, 1898), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima, (Boston., Little, Brown, & company., 1911), by John Richard Hale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mariner's chronicle : containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines, also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences ; stereotyped by A. Chandler. (New Haven : G.W. Gorton, c1834), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty famous naval battles; Salamis to Santiago, (New York, Boston, T. Y. Crowell & company, [1899]), by Edward Kirk Rawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1918), by John Richard Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of naval tactics: together with a brief critical analysis of the principal modern naval battles. (New York, D. Appleton, 1859), by James Harmon Ward and Howard Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handleiding bij de Beoefening van het internationaal zeerecht, (Helder, C. de Boer, jr., 1905), by J. F. Nijland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Britain's sea story, B.C. 55-A.D. 1805 : being the story of British heroism in voyaging and sea-fight from Alfred's time to the Battle of Trafalgar : with an introduction tracing the development of the structure of sailing ships from the earliest times / (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), by R. Morton Nance and E. E. Speight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous duels of the fleet and their lessons, (Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood, 1908), by H. B. Money Coutts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Battles of the British Navy. (London, Bell & Daldy, 1868), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The naval battles of Great Britain, from the accession of the illustrious House of Hanover to the throne to the Battle of Navarin. (London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1828), by Charles Ekins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle : containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines, also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences. (New Haven : G. W. Gorton, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty famous naval battles; Salamis to Santiago,, by Edward Kirk Rawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• British minor expeditions. 1746 to 1814. (London, Printed under the superintendence of H. M. Stationery off., 1884), by Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité sur l'art des combats de mer : dédié à S.A.R. Mgr. le duc d'Angoulème, grand amiral de France / (Paris : Bachelier, 1815), by Monsieur le Chevalier Delarouvraye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navies of the world; giving concise descriptions of the plans, armament and armor of the naval vessels of twenty of the principal nations. Together with the latest developments in ordnance, torpedoes, and naval architecture, and a concise summary of the principal naval battles of the last twenty years, 1860-1880. (New York, J. Wiley & Sons, 1880), by Edward W. Very (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy ... (London : G. Bell, 1878-1880), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval battles, ancient and modern. (Philadelphia [etc.] J.C. McCurdy & co., 1883), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etude sur les opérations de guerre maritime de 1860 à 1863 / (Paris : Berger-Levrault, 1884), by Etienne Farret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia generale della marina militare, (Livorno, Tip. di R. Giusti, 1895), by Augusto Vittorio Vecchj (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Cringle's log / (Edinburgh ; London : William Blackwood, 1895), by Michael Scott, Josiah Wood Whymper, Edward Goodall, Clarkson Stanfield, and William Blackwood and Sons. pbl prt elt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy / (London : G. Bell & Sons, 1880-1883), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great battles of the British army, with continuation to the present time, including the Soudan campaign. (London, G. Routledge and Sons, [1885?]), by Charles Rathbone Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide international du commandant de batiment de guerre (d'après Calvo, Fauchille, Ortolan Hautefeuille, etc.). (Paris, Baudon, 1891), by E. Rosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the blue sea, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1919), by Henry John Newbolt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous sea fights from Salamis to Tsu-shima / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1911), by John Richard Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Beverley R. Robinson collection of naval battle prints. (Annapolis, 1953), by United States Naval Academy. Museum and Beverley Randolph Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles of the British navy. (London, H.G. Bohn, 1852), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles by sea / (New York : Macmillan, 1925), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval wars in the Baltic during the sailing-ship epoch, 1522-1850, (London, C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910), by R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: (New Haven, G. W. Gorton, 1834), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironclads in action : a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895, with some account of the development of the battleship in England / (Boston : Little, Brown ; London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironclads in action; a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895, (London, S. Low, Marston and company, 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States navy, 1776 to 1815, depicted in an exhibition of prints of American naval engagements and American naval commanders held at the Grolier club November 19, 1942 to January 17, 1943. (New York, The Grolier club, 1942), by Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Tarih-i Fezleke ...etc., 1117, i.e. 1705 and 1706]. ([Istanbul, 1705 and 1706]), by Kâtip Çelebi and flourished 1706 Miftahizade Mustafa bin Hasan, contrib. by Sâmî (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima, by A. Hilliard Atteridge (Gutenberg ebook)
• The true copie, of a letter vvritten to a gentleman of vvorship in England: Lamentably discoursing the crueltie of Bashavv Mahomet, high admirall to the great Turke: vvho vvith a fleete of one hundred and seauen gallies, entred the confines of the Christian princes within the Straits of Gibraltar. With his landing in Sicilia an iland of the Spanish kings, which hee burned and spoiled, taking many prisoners. Also the taking of two of the principall gallies of the Duke of Florence with one thousand fighting men: the taking and burning of three great ships in the Vale of Messina, and two others in the gulphe of Venice, one which being a Venetian, the other a Fleming. (Printed at London : by I.D. for Thomas Gosson: and are to be sold at his shop by London Bridge Gate, 1595) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, relating to the affairs and proceedings between this Commonwealth and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys,: and the present differences occcasioned [sic] on the States part. And the answer of the Parliament to three papers from the ambassadors extraordinary of the States General, upon occasion of the late fight between the fleets. With a narrative of the late engagement betvveen the English and Holland fleet. As also a collection of the preceedings in the treaty between the Lord Pauw, Ambassador Extraordinary from the States General of the United Provinces, and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. Friday the ninth of Iuly, 1652. Ordered by the Parliament, that no person whatsoever, without particular license from the Parliament, do presume to print the declaration ... Nor any the papers therewith printed, other then the printer to the Parliament. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : Printed by Iohn Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1652), by England and Wales Parliament and Adriann Pauw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Great victory obtained by the English against the Hollanders, on Friday the 6th of May the whole manner of the engagement, the persuing of the Dutch fleet towards Holland, and blocking up of their admirals, Van Trump, de Witte and Ruyter, in the Texel, by General Dean, General Monk, and Vice-Admiral Penn : with the taking of 60 small ships and 6 merchant-men very richly laden, that were coming from France, about by Scotland. (London : Printed by Robert Wood, 1653) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A True and perfect narrative of the great and signal success of a part of His Majesties fleet under His Highness Prince Rupert, and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle : burning one hundred and sixty Dutch ships within the Ulie, as also the town of Brandaris upon the island of Schelling, by some commanded men under the conduct of Sir Robert Holmes, the eighth and ninth of this instant August : published by especial command. (London : Printed by Tho. Newcomb ..., 1666) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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