William Clark Russell (1844-1911), born in New York City, was an American novelist who gained his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor in the British merchant marine. He was a popular writer of nautical novels and horror stories and at the beginning of the Sherlock Holmes story, The Five Orange Pips, Doctor Watson is shown 'deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories'.
Age of Sail: Fiction
AOS Naval Fiction
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The Yarn of Old Harbour Town : A captain's daughter is kidnapped and a pursuit and a fight in the English Channel follow.
Auld Lang Syne : A young man is pressed to serve aboard the Cleopatra
AOS Privateer Fiction
AOS Pirate Fiction
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The Two Captains : Unable to obtain a 'letter of Marque' they go pirating
AOS Other Nautical Fiction
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The Captain's Wife (aka Overdue) : A captain'swife joins him at sea.
An Ocean Tragedy : The pursuit of the schooner yacht Shark by the Bride
List, Ye Landsmen! : First officer Fielding is tested as a man and a sailor.
The Wreck of the "Grosvenor" : Edward Royle, is second mate on a sailing ship travelling from England to South America
John Holdsworth: Chief Mate : John Holdsworth is a young chief mate when out in the Atlantic disaster strikes
A Noble Haul : The captain of the Mohican was as coarse, surly, ill-conditioned a rogue as ever stepped the planks of a ship's deck
The Frozen Pirate : Paul Rodney is shipwrecked and discovers a pirate ship that has been frozen in ice for fifty years
The Honour of the Flag : Eight short stories
The Romance of a Midshipman : A Merchant voyage to Australia
The Death Ship : An account of a cruise in "The Flying Dutchman,"
A Sailor's Sweetheart : The wreck of the sailing ship Waldershare
The Emigrant Ship : The story of a voyage
The Convict Ship : A woman stows away on a convict ship to follow her man
The Ship’s Adventure (aka The Mate of the Good Ship York)
Abandoned : A wife mysteriously becomes hostile to her husband and he has to resort to kidnapping her aboard his ship
His Island Princess : The adventures of a shipwrecked sailor
My Watch Below : Yarns Spun when Off Duty
Round the Galley Fire : 28 short stories
On the Fo'k'sle Head : 27 short stories
In the Middle Watch : 26 short stories
A Book for the Hammock : 22 short stories
The Mystery of the Ocean Star : A Collection of Maritime Sketches
The Phantom Death and Other Stories : 11 classic horror-laced nautical stories
Heart of Oak: A Three-Stranded Yarn : The Wreck of the Lady Emma
A Strange Voyage : A man decides to obtain a ship and go to sea for his health
A Strange Elopement : The story of a couple's elopement from a ship bound to India
My Danish Sweetheart : Helga has disguised herself as a boy to secure safe passage on a ship.
A Marriage at Sea : A nautical romance
A Sea Queen : A wife follows her husband to sea
A Voyage at Anchor : An old hulk is used for a holiday
Marooned : A story of murder and mutiny
Master Rockafellar's Voyage : A young man wants to go to sea
The Tragedy of Ida Noble : An American skipper's ruse leaves a second mate abandoned at sea
The Good Ship Mohock : Piratess infiltrate a ship's crew
Non-Fiction
AOS Naval Non-Fiction
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Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England : A biographical study
The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood : A biographical study
Pictures from the Life of Nelson : A biographical study
Betwixt The Forelands : The naval history of the English Channel from the Middle Ages onwards
AOS Other Non-Fiction
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The Ship: Her Story : A history of ships through the ages.
A Voyage to the Cape : An account of a voyage taken by the author
William Dampier : A biographical account