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• Well-timed words. (London : Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, [between 1857 and 1865]), by Dean & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of Captain O'Brien, R.N., containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France, after undergoing a series of sufferings which lasted for nearly five years. (London, J. Gould, 1814), by O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers relating to the commercial marine of Great Britain. (London : Printed by T.R. Harrison, 1848), by James Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in addition to sundry good times, they learn somewhat of the early history of their country / (New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1880), by Richard Markham, Frank Beard, Milton J. Burns, George F. egr Swain, Avery & Co. prt elt Rand, and Mead & Company. pbl Dodd (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)
• A midshipman in the Pacific : his adventures on whaler, trader and frigate / (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, ©1904), by Cyrus Townsend Brady and Grosset & Dunlap. pbl, illust. by G. A Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Within the enemy's lines / (Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Chas. T. Dillingham, 1891, c1889), by Oliver Optic, Charles Theodore Dillingham, and Lee and Shepard. pbl prt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ships and shipmasters of old Providence : a brief account of some of the famous merchants, sea captains, and ships of the past, together with reminiscences of a few notable voyages made in Providence ships. (Providence, R.I. : Printed for the Providence Institution for Savings, 1919), by Providence Institution for Savings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue pavilions, (New York, Cassell publishing company, [c1891]), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Jarvis... (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1890), by Molly Elliot Seawell, Julian Oliver Davidson, George Wharton Edwards, and D. Appleton and Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dorothy and her friends, (Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company; Cambridge, The Riverside press, [1899]), by Ellen Olney Kirk, H.O. Houghton & Company. elt prt, Mass.) pbl prt Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company. pbl Houghton, illust. by Walter L. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tim and Tip; or, The adventures of a boy and a dog, (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1883), by James Otis and Harper & Brothers. pbl, illust. by W. A Rogers (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)
• The sea-wolf / (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, publishers, [1906], c1904), by Jack London, W. J. Aylward, Berwick & Smith. Book producer, J.S. Cushing & Co. Book producer, Norwood Press. Book producer, and Grosset & Dunlap. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ambergris Island, or, The new El Dorado : a tale of love and adventure in the southern seas / (Boston : W.A. Evans & Bro., 1882), by George Russell Jackson and W.A. Evans & Bro. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood island light : or, Ned Sanford's refuge / (New York : Hurst and Company, ©1895), by James Otis, contrib. by Hurst & Company, illust. by Schoelch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant's, shipmaster's and mate's manual, and seaman's fisherman's, coaster's, common carrier's and insurer's assistant. (Boston, I.R. Butts, 1855-56), by I. R. Butts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Captain Grief / (Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company, c1954), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The navy boys' cruise with Columbus : the adventures of two boys who sailed with the great admiral in his discovery of America / (New York : A.L. Burt, ©1903), by Frederick A. Ober, contrib. by A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ships and shipmasters of old Providence; a brief account of some of the famous merchants, sea captains and ships of the past together with reminiscences of a few notable voyages made in Providence ships. (Providence, R.I., 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granting masters' liens. Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, first session. October 11, 1967. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters liens on certain U. S. vessels. Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 162 and H. R. 5749 ... (Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• George Nichols, Salem shipmaster and merchant. (Salem, Mass., The Salem Press Co., [1913?]), by George Nichols and Martha Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persuasion / (London : Dent ; New York : Dutton, 1909), by Jane Austen and C. E. Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of American yachts and yachtsmen. (New York : Spirit of the Times Pub. Co., 1901), by Harry Brown and Spirit of the Times Publising Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A directory of names, pennant numbers, and addresses of all members of the Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes. (Cleveland, Ohio: The Association, Grand Financial Secretary,), by Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Ben's book : a record of things which happened to Capt. Benjamin J. Willard, pilot and stevedore, during some sixty years on sea and land / (Portland, Me. : Lakeside Press, 1895), by Benjamin J. Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironclad captains : the commanding officers of the USS Monitor / ([Washington, D.C.] : Marine and Estuarine Management Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1988]), by William N. Still and Dina B. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young naval captain, or, The war of all nations / (Chicago : Thompson & Thomas, c1902), by Ralph Bonehill and Thompson & Thomas. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., [1900]), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronological list of the officers conducting British maritime discoveries and surveys : together with the names of the vessels employed from the earlier times until 1900 /, by Thomas Henry Tizard and printer Eyre & Spottiswoode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marin & [i.e. et] jésuite : vie et voyages de François de Plas, ancien capitaine de vaisseau, prêtre de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1809-1888 / (Paris : Retaux-Bray, 1890), by V. Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-wolf / (New York ; London : The Macmillan Company, 1904), by Jack London, Decorative Designers (Firm) bdd, Norwood Press. prt, and Macmillan Company. pbl, illust. by W. J. Aylward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Coast Guard : magnitude of alcohol problems and related maritime accidents unknown : report to the Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate / ([Washington, D.C.] : General Accounting Office, [1990]), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journal of Gideon Olmstead : adventures of a sea captain during the American Revolution / (Washington : Library of Congress, c1978), by Gideon Olmsted and Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mutineers; a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago, (Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, [c1920]), by Charles Boardman Hawes and Atlantic Monthly Press. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Charles H. Marshall., by William Allen Butler, contrib. by D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to shipmasters and seamen : their appointment, duties, powers, rights, liabilities and remedies / (London : Stevens & Haynes, 1875), by Joseph Kay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magic cane / (New York : Aladdin Books, c1953), by Elisabeth Webster, illust. by Maurice Brevannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tangled tale / (London : Macmillan, 1885), by Lewis Carroll, A. B. Frost, Richard Clay and Sons. prt, and Macmillan & Co. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northanger Abbey : and Persuasion / (London : John Murray, Albemarle-street, 1818), by Jane Austen, Charles Roworth, and Henry Thomas Austen, contrib. by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-wolf / (New York : Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1915, c1904), by Jack London, W. J. Aylward, Macmillan & Co. Book producer, and Macmillan Company. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A son of the sun / (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912), by Jack London, Clifford W. Ashley, Anton Otto Fischer, Country Life Press. Book producer, and Page & Company. Book producer Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• A directory of names, pennant numbers, and addresses of all members of the Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes. (Cleveland, Ohio: The Association, Grand Financial Secretary,), by Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skipper of the Sentinel / (Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. : Review and Herald Pub. Assocciation, c1945), by May Cole Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts /, by Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Motte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Generall sailing-orders according to which masters as have a mind to saile are to ruled by. (Rotterdam, : by Isaac van Lochem, bookseller in the Milstreete, by order of Their Lordships, the Lords of the Admirality upon the Maze., [1692?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)
• To the lights, by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Honor of Thieves: A Novel, by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Black Pawl, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Dochter van de Zeekapitein: Een Histories Verhaal (in Dutch), by D'Arbez (Gutenberg ebook)
• His Little World: The Story of Hunch Badeau, by Samuel Merwin, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg ebook)
• Clever Betsy: A Novel, by Clara Louise Burnham, illust. by Rose Cecil O'Neill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Merry Anne, by Samuel Merwin, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cursed, by George Allan England, illust. by Modest Stein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía (in Spanish), by Pío Baroja (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)
• Ο Σάνσελλορ (in Greek), by Jules Verne, trans. by Panagiotes I. Phermpos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ο δεκαπενταετής πλοίαρχος (in Greek), by Jules Verne (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)
• Persuasion (in French), by Jane Austen, trans. by Madame Letorsay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (I Slavelænker) (in Danish), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, by Holman Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Janet of the Dunes, by Harriet T. Comstock (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Blue Pavilions, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul, by Holman Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• Las inquietudes de Shanti Andia (in Spanish), by Pío Baroja (Gutenberg ebook)

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