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'.
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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 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 | |
| Nelson's Words and Deeds | A Selection from the Dispatches and Correspondence of Horatio Nelson | |
| 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 Privateer Fiction |
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| An Ocean Free-Lance | From a Privateersman's Log 1812 | |
AOS Pirate Fiction |
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| Year | Book | Comment |
| 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 | |
| What Cheer! | The Sad Story of a Wicked Sailor | |
| The Ship’s Adventure | 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 Romance of Jenny Harlowe | And Sketches of Maritime Life | |
| The Phantom Death and Other Stories | 11 classic horror-laced nautical stories | |
| Jack's Courtship | A Sailor's Yarn of Love and Shipwreck | |
| Heart of Oak | The Wreck of the Lady Emma | |
| A Strange Voyage | A man decides to obtain a ship and go to sea for his health | |
| The Golden Hope | A Romance of the Deep | |
| 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 | |
| My Shipmate Louise | The Romance of a Wreck | |
| 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 | |
| The Tale of the Ten | A Salt-Water Romance | |
| Rose Island | The Strange Story of Love Adventure at Sea | |
AOS Other Non Fiction |
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| Year | Book | Comment |
| 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 | |
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