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...The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one complete, about them all. The author was also an Olympic athlete; winning a bronze, silver and g...

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...nging voice, and a facility with writing. His wartime service related in his diary is a series of triumphs over harrowing circumstances, bringing his boat back in spite of the best efforts of the Royal Navy to stop him.His one vulnerability is a young lady he meets on leave in Bruges, Belgium. Although she is the trophy girlfriend of a German colonel who could cause him mu...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Eilean Aros. It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a c...

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...AUTIFUL MORNING in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had suc... ...t coun- try, two storeys high. It looked westward over a bay, with a pier hard by for a boat, and from the door you could watch the vapours blowing on... ...of the poisonous viper of the land. On calm days you can go wandering between them in a boat for hours, echoes following you about the labyrinth; but ... ... tide begins to run again, and above all in heavy weather, there is no man could take a boat within half a mile of it, nor a ship afloat that could ei... ...he Hebrideans. And, indeed, I think he had some claim to be called saint; for, with the boats of that past age, to make so rough a passage, and land o... ...d there was nothing for it but to stand on the far shore and whistle for Rorie with the boat. I had no need to repeat the signal. At the first sound, ... ...like of it unknown in all our waters, followed for some years the passage of the ferry- boat, until no man dared to make the crossing. ‘He will be wai... ...changes. The garden was fenced with the same wood that 11 Merry Men I had noted in the boat; there were chairs in the kitchen covered with strange br... ...ermaids, and sea-horses that had come ashore upon the islands and attacked the crews of boats upon the sea; and my uncle, in spite of his incredulity,...

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...This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very modern bad-guys. (Summary by Brenda Price)...

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...writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat. Leslie sailed during the Great Age of Sail before Industrialism had taken possession of Britain. Leslie comments on the early days of singlehanded small boat sailing: When I first began boating in the early fort...

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...Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on Jun...

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...Pete Erickson has long dreamed of sailing a small boat to Alaska. When he retires, he acts on his dream. It turns into a nightmare when his boyhood rival's jealousy turns into venom. Slen Kuskitt has become a drug lord. He has temporarily abandoned a 42-foot ketch. In it h...

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... Ansel. Teeth and all. We never saw him again. “No sir, he disappeared complete. The last thing we saw of him was his heels. So I’ll tie you to the boat, Marty. We don’t want to lose you.” He took a length of rope an inch thick, wrapped it around Marty’s middle and snubbed it off to a stanchion with a bowline knot. “Now that will keep you safe in the boat, anyhow,” he s...

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... by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. (Summary is the full title)...

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...away, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to civilization. But Crusoe proves willing to chance his luck a second time when, after sweating his way to prosperity as a planter in Brazil, he undertakes ...

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...rs. Dalloway. E. M. Forster described it as ... a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis... It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a dif...

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...rk of Tsurayuki. It is an account of his return to the capital Kyoto from Tosa province, where he had served as governor since 930. The journey is by boat, and Tsurayuki tells about his sea sickness and fear of pirates, his impressions of the coast, and the various offerings to placate the gods of the sea. The Tosa Diary is written entirely in kana (the women's alphabet) a...

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...This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his own and a suit of armour! The maid, or marriageable youn...

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...me the sound of other whistles came to us from out of the fog. “That’s a ferry boat of some sort,” the newcomer said, indicating a whistle off to the ... ...er man. Ah, I thought so. Now hell’s a poppin’ for somebody!” The unseen ferry boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth blown horn was tootin... ...d I could hear the whistle plainly, off to one side and a little ahead. “Ferry boat?” I asked. He nodded, then added, “Or he wouldn’t be keepin’ up su... ... hazy way I saw and heard men rushing and shouting as they strove to lower the boats. It was just as I had read descriptions of such scenes in books. ... ... descriptions of such scenes in books. The tackles jammed. Nothing worked. One boat lowered away with the plugs out, filled with women and children and... ...ut, filled with women and children and then with water, and cap sized. Another boat had been lowered by one end, and still hung in the tackle by the o... ...caused the disaster, though I heard men saying that she would undoubtedly send boats to our assistance. I descended to the lower deck. The Martinez wa... ...eard, also, the sound of oars. Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered its boats. As the time went by I marvelled that I was still alive. I had no... ...cles like a horse. Pack up your kit and go for’ard into the fo’c’sle. You’re a boat puller now. You’re promoted; see?” Without waiting for the boy’s a...

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...and the baby seemed to me to be all right when it was handed down into the boat at Suez. The Robinsons were allowed time to breakfast at that cavernou... ...ored to the quay, but there was no life in them; not a sail was set, not a boatman or a sailor was to be seen, and the very water looked as though it ... ...d fancy the glare of the sun was cracking the paint on the gunwales of the boats. I was the only visitor in the house, and during all the long hours o... ...sia, on the other side of the head of the Red Sea. Mahmoud would provide a boat to take across the party in the morning, and camels on which we would ... ...r else we would go and return on camels, or go on camels and return in the boat. Indeed any ar- rangement would be made that I preferred. If I was afr... ... made that I preferred. If I was afraid of the heat, and disliked the open boat, I could be car- ried round in a litter. The provisions had already be... ...g morning I was dressed at six, and, looking out of my bed-room, I saw the boat in which we were to be wafted into Asia being brought up to the quay c... ... we should start early, so as to avoid the mid-day sun, break- fast in the boat,—Mahmoud in this way engaged to pro- vide me with two refections,—take... ...window, I could see a basket laden with long-necked bottles going into the boat, and became aware that we should not depend altogether for our morning...

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...ther cargo as was unshipping at the pier from the dancing fleet of village boats, and from two or three little coasting traders. As the beasts of burd... ...d, and I got enough way upon her in good time to keep her off. I ordered a boat to be lowered and manned, and went in that boat myself to 13 Charles ... ...ple on which I came to see this bottle. I picked up the bottle and ran the boat alongside the is- land, and made fast and went ashore armed, with a pa... ...gside the is- land, and made fast and went ashore armed, with a part of my boat’s crew. We found that every scrap of vegetation on the island (I give ...

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... so the more) even as that poor dozen was clattering up the hill, a great ship of the king’s navy, that could have brought them under with a single bo... ...the ship, but newly come to anchor. She was the Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, out of the port of Havre-de-Grace. The Master, after we had signalled for a bo... ...and to perceive her go about and head for the Sainte- Marie. But our gratification did not very long endure; for when she had laid to and lowered a bo... ...and then again, and further off, a creak of oars upon the other. It was clear we had been sighted yesterday in the morning; here were the cruiser’s bo... ...e perilously placed; and as we lay there on our oars, praying God the mist might hold, the sweat poured from my brow. Presently we heard one of the bo... ...oms like those of poison, and in the course of a few hours expired in the bottom of the canoe. We thus lost at once our guide, our interpreter, our bo... ... by the unbroken woods; and the sides of the lakes were quite impassable with bog: so that we beheld ourselves not only condemned to go without our bo... ...good by him?” “Sure, and you can have it your own way, my dear man,” says the Colonel. By this time we had come to the side of the creek, where the bo... ... if I had been to blame for this partiality; then changed again into his usual swaggering ci- vility, shook me by the hand, and set off down to the bo...

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..., Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn, And built their castles of dissolving sand To watch them ove... ...efore his eyes, To hoard all savings to the uttermost, To purchase his own boat, and make a home For Annie: and so prosper’d that at last A luckier or... ...vorably: And ere he touch’d his one-and-twentieth May He purchased his own boat, and made a home For Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway up The narrow s... ...man and valued him, Reporting of his vessel China-bound, And wanting yet a boatswain. Would he go? 7 Enoch Arden, &c. There yet were many weeks befo... ...ildren—what to do? Then Enoch lay long-pondering on his plans; To sell the boat—and yet he loved her well— How many a rough sea had he weather’d in he... ...fy lanes, The peacock-yewtree and the lonely Hall, The horse he drove, the boat he sold, the chill November dawns and dewy-glooming downs, The gentle ... ...uld he turn his hand. Cooper he was and carpenter, and wrought To make the boatmen fishing-nets, or help’d At lading and unlading the tall barks, That... ... does the stranded wreck See thro’ the gray skirts of a lifting squall The boat that bears the hope of life approach To save the life despair’d of, th...

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...amuse yourself first, also. You must go down and see Mrs. Westgate.” “We should be so happy, if you would kindly tell us the train,” said Percy Beaumo... ... of the city, and I will immediately send out and get you a cabin. Then, at half past four o’clock, just call for me here, and I will go with you and ... ... they reached the huge white vessel while the bell for departure was still ringing and the absorption of pas- sengers still active. It was indeed, as ...

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...ts as boundless, and souls as free’: But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat, How do you like the Sea? There is an insect that people avoid (When...

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... that ye bury me not in this country, but as soon as I am dead put me in a boat at the next haven, and let me go as adventure will lead me; and as soo...