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• The Second Mate (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1923), by H. Bedford-Jones (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Archibald Hughson, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• James Braithwaite, the Supercargo: The Story of His Adventures Ashore and Afloat, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
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• The Life of a Ship From the Launch to the Wreck, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Ran Away to Sea, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sunshine Bill, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)
• Ben Hadden, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)
• Bob, the Cabin-Boy (New York: Sunday-School Union, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boy Tar, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dick Sand: or, A Captain at Fifteen (New York: A. L. Burt, ca.1878), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
• Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, by Jules Verne, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer (Gutenberg 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)
• Freaks on the Fells; and Why I Did Not Become a Sailor; also, Papers From Norway, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Archibald Webb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Land of Fire, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Nelson, and Other Stories, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mate of the Lily, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On Board the Esmeralda, by John C. Hutcheson
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• The Pirate of the Mediterranean, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Yule Logs (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), ed. by G. A. Henty
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• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• 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 Lifeboat: A Tale of Our Coast Heroes, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
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• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Madman and the Pirate, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by Arthur Twidle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Sea Change (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Flora L. Shaw, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the Meteor Flag, by Harry Collingwood
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• We and the World: A Book for Boys, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
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  • Part II: Gutenberg text
• Yule-Tide Yarns (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), ed. by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Young Supercargo: A Story of the Merchant Marine, by William Drysdale, illust. by Charles Copeland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Merille karannut: Seikkailuromaani Afrikan rannikolta (in Finnish), by Mayne Reid, trans. by A. J. Salonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: the Story of H.M.S. Pinafore, by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dick Rodney; or, The Adventures of an Eton Boy, by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Boy's Adventures Round the World, by John Andrew Higginson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack Manly; His Adventures by Sea and Land, by James Grant (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quarterdeck and Fok'sle: Stories of the Sea, by Molly Elliot Seawell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Master Rockafellar's Voyage, by William Clark Russell, illust. by Gordon Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea, by Thomas Bingley (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Scheepsjongen van "De Gouden Leeuw" (in Dutch), by Johannes Hendrik Been, illust. by Jan Wiegman (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Year in a Yawl: A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl, by Russell Doubleday (Gutenberg ebook)
• Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Armed Ship America; Or, When We Sailed from Salem, by James Otis, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hard-Scrabble of Elm Island, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Sailor in Spite of Himself, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Loyal Little Red-Coat: A Story of Child-life in New York a Hundred Years Ago, by Ruth Ogden, illust. by Henry Alexander Ogden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; Or, The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Captain's Story; or, The Disobedient Son, contrib. by William S. Martin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Quest of the Golden Pearl, by J. R. Hutchinson, illust. by Hume Nisbet (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes: Being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia, where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Stolen Cruiser, by Percy F. Westerman, illust. by Charles Norman and John De Walton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Yule-Tide Yarns, ed. by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kahden taalarin raha (in Finnish), by A. E. Ingman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant, by George Cupples (Gutenberg ebook)
• The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Just Sixteen., by Susan Coolidge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg ebook)
• The School Friends; Or, Nothing New, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wild Adventures round the Pole: Or, The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon", by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure, by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn, by Gordon Stables, illust. by Allan Stewart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Harry Milvaine; Or, The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy, by Gordon Stables (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack Buntline, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Horace Harral (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day, by Richard Clynton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cruise of the Frolic, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Seven Frozen Sailors, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Voyage of the Aurora, by Harry Collingwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser: A Brave Fight Against Odds, by Walter Fenton Mott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hurrah for New England!: Or, The Virginia Boy's Vacation, by Cornelia L. Tuthill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1876), by Jules Verne, George Routledge and Sons, Charles Dickens and Evans, and Crystal Palace Press (page images at Florida)
• The English at the North Pole / by Jules Verne (London, New York ;: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876), by Jules Verne, Louis-Philippe Dumont, Juliet, George Routledge and Sons, Charles Dickens and Evans, and Crystal Palace Press (page images at Florida)
• My first voyage to southern seas (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860), by William Henry Giles Kingston and Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at Florida)
• The boy's own sea stories (London: Addey and Co., 1863), by Charles Nordhoff, William Stevens, John Leighton, Edmund Evans, and Addey and Co (page images at Florida)
• Fighting the whales, or, Doings and dangers on a fishing cruise (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1865), by R. M. Ballantyne and D. Appleton and Company (page images at Florida)
• The floating city and, The blockade runners (New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875), by Jules Verne and John F. Trow & Co, illust. by Jules Descartes Férat, Henri Théophile Hildibrand, and Adolphe François Pannemaker (page images at Florida)
• The ship of ice (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1875), by S. Whitchurch Sadler and Marcus Ward & Co (page images at Florida)
• Ralph Somerville, or, A midshipman's adventures in the Pacific Ocean (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876), by Charles H Eden, Marcus Ward & Co, and Royal Ulster Works (page images at Florida)
• Walter at the sea-side, or, Facts and fancies about the shore and the deep (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869) (page images at Florida)
• Strangers from the South and other stories (Boston (Franklin St. Corner of Hawley): D. Lothrop and Company, 1877), by Ella Farman and Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick, illust. by Samuel Smith Kilburn (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)
• Life on desolate islands, or, Real Robinson Crusoes (London: Religious Tract Society, 1870), illust. by Charles A Ferrier (page images at Florida)
• Willie and Lucy at the sea-side (London: Religious Tract Society, 1868), by Agnes Giberne (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)
• The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (New York: Century Co., 1895), by Howard Pyle, illust. by Howard Pyle (page images at Florida)
• Little Mr. Van Vere of China (Boston: Dana Estes & Company, c1898), by Harriet A. Cheever, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)
• Little Mr. Van Vere of China (Boston: Dana Estes & Company, c1898), by Harriet A. Cheever, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)
• Twenty thousand leagues under the seas, or, The marvelous and exciting adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil his servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian harpooner (Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873), by Jules Verne, illust. by Henri Théophile Hildibrand (page images at Florida)
• A young rover, or, A boy's adventures on sea and land (London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, n.d.), illust. by F Méaulle, Félix Jean Gauchard, Charles Laplante, and Emile Bayard (page images at Florida)
• Tales of shipwrecks and other disasters at sea (London: W. Kent & Co., 1861), by Thomas Bingley (page images at Florida)
• In the eastern seas, or, The regions of the bird of paradise (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by William Henry Giles Kingston (page images at Florida)
• The captain's story, or, The disobedient son (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), by William S Martin (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of Mark Willis (London et al.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1884), by George Cupples, illust. by E Evans (page images at Florida)
• Treasure Island (London et al.: Cassell and Company, 1885), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Frank T Merrill (page images at Florida)
• Harry the sailor boy and his uncle Gilbert (London: Religious Tract Society, 1870) (page images at Florida)
• Sinbad the sailor (New York: Worthington Co., 1889), illust. by Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
• The school friends, or, Nothing new (London et al.: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Edmund Evans (page images at Florida)
• Little Jarvis (New York: D. Appleton and Company, n.d.), by Molly Elliot Seawell, illust. by George Wharton Edwards and Julian Oliver Davidson (page images at Florida)
• Jim (London: Religious Tract Society, 1896), by Mary E Ropes (page images at Florida)
• As we sweep through the deep (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895), by Gordon Stables, illust. by Rhind (page images at Florida)
• From golden gate through sunrise lands ([S.l.]: Oriental Publishing Co., 1894), by Edward A Rand (page images at Florida)
• The boy captain, or, From forecastle to cabin (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, n.d.), by James Otis and Geo. C. Scott & Sons (page images at Florida)
• The good sailor boy, or The adventures of Charley Morant (London: Ward, Lock, & Co., n.d.), by Mercie Sunshine (page images at Florida)
• The great island, or, Cast away in Papua by Willis Boyd Allen (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1897), by Willis Boyd Allen and C.J. Peters & Son (Typographer ) (page images at Florida)
• Swept out to sea (London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1897), by David Ker and W. & R. Chambers Ltd, illust. by James Ayton Symington (page images at Florida)
• Afloat with Nelson, or, From Nile to Trafalgar (London: John MacQueen, 1897), by Charles H Eden (page images at Florida)
• The gunroom heroes, or, Adventures with Arabs afloat and ashore (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1899), by Arthur Lee Knight (page images at Florida)
• The pilot of the Mayflower (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Hezekiah Butterworth and D. Appleton and Company (page images at Florida)
• The old plate's story (London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1898), by William J Forster (page images at Florida)
• The naval cadet (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1898), by Gordon Stables, illust. by W. Rainey (page images at Florida)
• The island of gold (London et al.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Gordon Stables, illust. by Allan Stewart (page images at Florida)
• Tar-bucket and pipe-clay, or, The life and adventures of Nicholas Brodribb, middy and marine (London: Griffith, Farran, Browne and Co., Limited, 1897), by J. Percy Groves (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Sam's blue jackets afloat (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1897), by Henry E Rhodes and United States Navy (page images at Florida)

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