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• Skipper John's Cook (New York: Junior Literary Guild and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951), by Marcia Brown (HTML and page images at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Tar, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• À Fond de Cale: Voyage d'un Jeune Marin à Travers les Ténèbres (French translation of "The Boy Tar"; new edition; Paris: Hachette, 1894), by Mayne Reid, trans. by H. Loreau (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jack Harkaway After Schooldays (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Harkaway's Adventures Afloat and Ashore: A Sequel to Jack Harkaway After Schooldays (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Land of Fire, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last Cruise of the Spitfire: or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage (revised edition; Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, c1900), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lost in the Forest, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by D. L. Mays
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ned Franks: or, The Christian's Panoply (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1866), by A. L. O. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outward Bound, or, Young America Afloat: A Story of Travel and Adventure (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Philosopher Jack: A Tale of the Southern Seas, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Sunk at Sea, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ford of H.M.S. Vigilant: A Tale of the Chusan Archipelago (London et al.: Blackie and Son, 1910), by T. T. Jeans, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader (New York: A. L. Burt Co., n.d.), by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Lad of Grit: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times (London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1909), by Percy F. Westerman, illust. by E. S. Hodgson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lifeboat: A Tale of Our Coast Heroes, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Loss of the Royal George, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Horace Petherick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mate of the Lily, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ran Away to Sea, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sunshine Bill, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)
• The Powder Monkey, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by A. Dudley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Yule-Tide Yarns (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), ed. by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Jack Pomeroy: A Book for Boys, by Peter William Darnton (page images at ufl.edu)
• The Bale Marked Circle X: A Blockade Running Adventure (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. , 1902), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Chase Emerson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• In the King's Name: or, The Cruise of the Kestrel, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mountain Moggy, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Meteor Flag, by Harry Collingwood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Beyond the Snow: Being a History of Trim's Adventures in Nordlichtschein (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873), by P. Fishe Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Black Bar, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
• The Three Midshipmen, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Meteor Flag, by Harry Collingwood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Lively Poll: A Tale of the North Sea, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Round the Horn Before the Mast (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Basil Lubbock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ma Vie de Marin (2 volumes in 1, in French; Brussels: M. J. Poot, 1872-1874), by Émile Sinkel
  • page images at Google (volume order reversed)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust (volume order reversed)

• The Boatswain's Mate: A Play in One Act (New York: Samuel French, c1907), by W. W. Jacobs and Herbert C. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold: A Play in Four Acts (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1920), by Eugene O'Neill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Pale Blonde of Sands Street (New York: Viking Press, 1946), by William Chapman White (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. S. Utah (New York: International Publishers, 1933), by Mike Pell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dead Command (translation of "Los Muertos Mandan"; New York: Duffield and Co., 1919), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, trans. by Frances Douglas (Gutenberg text)
• The Gold Brick (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1866), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liverpool Jarge (waterfront edition; yarns printed in reverse order; Boston: Square Rigger Co., c1922), by Halliday Witherspoon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los Muertos Mandan (in Spanish), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Gutenberg text)
• Redburn: His First Voyage, by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)
• Sailor's Knots (1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Sailor's Return (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925), by David Garnett, illust. by R. A. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sea Plunder (New York: J. Lane and Co.; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1917), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
• The Skipper's Wooing; and The Brown Man's Servant (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1897), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Skipper's Wooing; and The Brown Man's Servant (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1897), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wind Bloweth (New York: The Century Co., c1922), by Donn Byrne, illust. by George Bellows (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Deep Waters, by W. W. Jacobs
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fearsome Island (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1896), by Albert Kinross (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Odd Craft (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd Craft (1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Out o' Luck: Biltmore Oswald Very Much at Sea (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Thorne Smith, illust. by Dick Dorgan
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• Sea Urchins (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by W. W. Jacobs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sea Urchins (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1899), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Pitcairn's Island (c1934), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1923), by Herman Melville, illust. by Mead Schaeffer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Typee: A Real Romance of the South Sea (Boston: The St. Botolph society, c1892), by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee: A Romance of the South Seas, by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Adventures of Roderick Random, by T. Smollett (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Roderick Random (based on the 1895 Gibbings/Lippincott edition, with added illustrations), by T. Smollett, ed. by George Saintsbury, illust. by Frank Richards and George Cruikshank (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island, by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Company, c1892), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1922), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: St. Botolph Society, 1923), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)

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