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• 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)

• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• 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)

• Thrice Armed (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1908), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• Thrice Armed (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1908), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The New Centurion: A Tale Of Automatic War (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895), by James Eastwick
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)

• The Misplaced Battleship (as published in Astounding, April 1960), by Harry Harrison, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Ronald Morton: or, The Fire-Ships, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Rival Submarines (third impresssion; London: S. W. Partridge and Co., n.d.), by Percy F. Westerman, illust. by Fleming Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Sunken Submarine (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1912), by Émile Augustin Cyprien Driant, trans. by Frederick Lawton, illust. by Lyle T. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1993 Lippincott omnibus edition; slightly abridged), by Jules Verne, trans. by Lewis Page Mercier
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Butcher (PDF with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by Frederick Paul Walter
  • illustrated HTML in Israel
  • Gutenberg text

• A Sub. of the R.N.R.: A Story of the Great War (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., n.d.), by Percy F. Westerman, illust. by W. Edward Wigfull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• 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)

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