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• The Cradle of the Deep (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929), by Joan Lowell, illust. by Kurt Wiese (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Salt Water Taffy, or, Twenty Thousand Leagues Away From the Sea: The Almost Incredible Autobiography of Capt. Ezra Triplett's Seafaring Daughter (credited on the title page to the book's main character; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929), by Corey Ford, illust. by Maurice Charbonnet Kellerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Blue Water: A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Frederick William Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Captain Kyd: or, The Wizard of the Sea (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1839), by J. H. Ingraham
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• A Modern Buccaneer (second edition; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Rolf Boldrewood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
• Rattlin the Reefer, by Edward Howard, ed. by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• Salt Seas and Sailormen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1922), by Frederick William Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sinful Peck (New York: McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine, c1903), by Morgan Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wide Waters (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by A. E. Dingle (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. S. Utah (New York: International Publishers, 1933), by Mike Pell (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• A Modern Telemachus, by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Pilot and His Wife (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1877), by Jonas Lie, trans. by G. L. Tottenham (Gutenberg text)
• Redburn: His First Voyage, by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• 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
• Green-pea pirates. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1919), by Peter B. Kyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacob Faithful (E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1834), by Frederick Marryat, T.K. Collins & Co, Griggs & Co, and Carey & Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• An old sailor's yarns ... (George Dearborn, 38 Gold St., 1835), by N. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Derringer : a tale of deep water (J. Murray, 1906), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket; or, The world in a man-of-war (United States book company, 1892), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea, spray and spindrift, naval yarns (J.B. Lippincott company;, 1917), by H. Taprell Dorling, H. Sotheby Pitcher, and W. E. Wigfull (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of our coast (Chatto & Windus, 1896), by Frank Brangwyn, William Clark Russell, Harold Frederic, Gilbert Parker, and S. R. Crockett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A bunch of rope yarns (Richard G. Badger, The Graham Press, 1903), by Stanton H. King, Gorham Press, and Richard G. Badger (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afloat with the flag (Harper & Bros., 1898), by W. J. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean adventures ; or, Cabin and forecastle yarns of thrilling incidents (G. W. Cottrell, 1854), by John Sherburne Sleeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floating remembrances and sketches of a sea life (Whittaker ;, 1854), by Old Sailor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pirate. (Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman;, 1836), by Frederick Marryat, Paul Gavarni, J. Yates, William Henry McQueen, Henry Griffiths, James Baylis Allen, John Cousen, Thomas Jeavons, Joseph Goodyear, Robert Wallis, Samuel Fisher, James Tibbetts Willmore, Robert Brandard, J. C. Edwards, Henry R. Cook, William Behnes, Clarkson Stanfield, James Moyes, Longman & Co, Thomas & Co Desilver, and Rees Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harvest of the sea; a tale of both sides of the Atlantic... (F. H. Revell company, 1905), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from a middy's log (T. Nelson and Sons, 1896), by Arthur Lee Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the Frolic. A sea story. (Lee and Shepard;, 1884), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sömandshistorier. (Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1901), by Holger Drachmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les épaulettes d'amiral. (De Vresse, 1856), by Guillaume-Joseph-Gabriel de Lalandelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gosselmann's See-Reise zwischen Süd- und Nord-Amerika. Ein Lesebuch für die erwachsene Jugend. (J.M. Oeberg, 1841), by Karl August Gosselman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les passagères; roman maritime. (Librairie nouvelle, 1860), by Gabriel de La Landelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fish yarns : and other salt water tales (Knowlson & Muller, 1904), by J. W. Muller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris Græme. (E.P. Williams, 1843), by J. H. Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miles Wallingford: Sequel to Afloat and Ashore. (Stringer and Townsend, 1852), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twenty-fifth of May, or, A cruise in the La Plata (Stringer & Townsend, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Youth, and two other stories. (Doubleday, Page, 1903), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out o' luck Biltmore Oswald very much at sea (W. Briggs, 1919), by Thorne Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The edge of circumstance a story of the sea (Copp, Clark, 1905), by Edward Noble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The S.S. Glory (W. Heinemann, 1915), by Frederick Niven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The harvest of the sea a tale of both sides of the Atlantic (F.H. Revell, 1905), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The shack locker yarns of the deep sea fishing fleets (Industrial & Educational Press, 1916), by Frederick William Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homeward bound; or, The chase. (G. P. Putnam, 1896), by James Fenimore Cooper (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)
• The cruise of the "Cachalot" : round the world after sperm whales (Smith, Elder, 1898), by Frank Thomas Bullen and Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bab Haskins in southern seas (Cornhill Pub. Co., 1922), by Charlton Lyman Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Lanagan's log : passages in the life of a merchant skipper (Ward and Downey, 1891), by Edmund Downey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond (Chapman & Hall, 1909), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Told in the dog watches. (Smith, Elder, 1910), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A master of craft (Methuen, 1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Youth, and two other stories (Doubleday, Page, 1915), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• White jacket (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Home as found : sequel to Homeward bound (G. P. Putnam, 1890), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Captain O'Shea, by Ralph Delahaye Paine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tough yarns, vol. 1 : A series of naval tales and sketches to please all hands, from the swabs on the shoulders down to the swabs in the head, by M. H. Barker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Meripoikia : Merimiesjutelmia (in Finnish), by W. W. Jacobs, trans. by Emil Palm (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack Derringer : A tale of deep water, by Basil Lubbock (Gutenberg ebook)
• To the lights, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Black Pawl, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deep-Sea Plunderings, by Frank Thomas Bullen, illust. by Arthur Twidle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The S.S. Glory, by Frederick Niven, illust. by Fred Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Praying Skipper, and Other Stories, by Ralph Delahaye Paine, illust. by W. J. Aylward, Walter Appleton Clark, and J. C. Leyendecker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blue Jackets; or, The Adventures of J. Thompson, A.B., Among "the Heathen Chinee": A Nautical Novel, by Edward Greey (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Dochter van de Zeekapitein: Een Histories Verhaal (in Dutch), by D'Arbez (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mountain of Fears, by Henry C. Rowland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea, by T. Jenkins Hains (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under Rocking Skies, by L. Frank Tooker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Deep Sea's Toll, by James B. Connolly, illust. by W. J. Aylward and Henry Reuterdahl (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gunroom, by Charles Morgan (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait, by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under Sail, by Lincoln Colcord (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)
• Mr. Midshipman Glover, R.N.: A Tale of the Royal Navy of To-day, by T. T. Jeans, illust. by E. S. Hodgson (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution, by T. T. Jeans, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2), by Michael Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 1 of 2), by Michael Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Viking Blood: A Story of Seafaring, by Frederick William Wallace (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)
• The Sea Bride, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• H.M.S. ----, by John Graham Bower (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pirate, and The Three Cutters, by Frederick Marryat, illust. by Edmund J. Sullivan (Gutenberg ebook)

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