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• Captains of ships
• Masters of ships
• Sea captains
• Shipmasters
• Ships' captains
• Ships -- Officers
• Sea captain

• 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
  • 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)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Timar's Two Worlds (New York: M. J. Ivers and Co., 1894), by Mór Jókai, trans. by Agnes Hegan Kennard (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)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of H. M. S. Pinafore (with some sheet music; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by W. S. Gilbert, contrib. by Arthur Sullivan, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story of Nelson, and Other Stories, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Captain Christie's Granddaughter (London: J. Morgan, ca. 1865), by Ruth Lamb (multiple formats at Google)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• The Ice Queen (New York: Harper and Bros., c1884), by Ernest Ingersoll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Bobtail: or, The Wreck of the Penobscot (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

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

• Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• Man on the Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by R. Richardson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia (London: J. Murray, 1906), by H. Warington Smyth
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at thecheappages.com
• Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by H. Warington Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freshwater: A History and a Narrative of the Great Lakes (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by George A. Cuthbertson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Passenger Lists of Ships Coming to North America, 1607-1825: A Bibliography (New York: New York Public Library, 1937), by Harold Lancour (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Maritime Connecticut During the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (2 volumes; Salem, MA: The Essex institute, 1925), by Louis F. Middlebrook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine Electrical Installation (second edition; New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1942), by John F. Piper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories of Ships and the Sea (Little Blue Book #1169; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1922), by Jack London, ed. by E. Haldeman-Julius (Gutenberg text)

• Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon for U.S. Navy Applications (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Wander-Ships: Folk-Stories of the Sea, With Notes Upon Their Origin (Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1917), by Wilbur Bassett
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Marine Hydrodynamics (40th anniversary edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by J. N. Newman, contrib. by John Grue (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Clearing Weather (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928), by Cornelia Meigs, illust. by Frank Dobias (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of H. M. S. Pinafore (with some sheet music; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by W. S. Gilbert, contrib. by Arthur Sullivan, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• 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)
• The Ship That Sailed to Mars (London: G. G. Harrap, ca. 1923), by William M. Timlin (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 (3 volumes; Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, ed. by William John Hinke
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust

• Evaluation of the Usability and Benefits of Twist Wire GMAW and FACW Narrow Gap Welding (Washington: US Dept. of Transportation Marine Administration, 1988), by Derek Mortvedt, contrib. by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (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)

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