 During the Age of Sail a privateer, also known as a Letter of Marque, was a private vessel authorised by a government to attack and capture an enemies ships in time of war. Books which feature such vessels will be very similar to naval fiction. This listing is for novels where the primary ship featured is a privateer. |
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Andre Norton
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Andrew Hepburn
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Barry Warburton
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Brad Koch
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Bruce McMinn
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Charles E. Friend
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Christopher C. Tubbs
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David Donachie
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David O'Neil
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Fleming Macliesh & Martin L. Krieger
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Frederick Marryat
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G. A. Henty
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Gerry Garibaldi
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Gordon Daviot
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Harry Collingwood
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J. E. Taylor
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James Fenimore Cooper
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James Otis
- Captain Tom, The Privateersman of the Armed Brig Chasseur
- The Armed Ship America: or, When we Sailed from Salem
- The Charming Sally: Privateer Schooner of New York. A tale of 1765
- The Cruise of the Comet: the story of a privateer of 1812 sailing from Baltimore
- The Cruise of the Pickering: a boy's story of privateering in 1780
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Julian Stafford Corbett
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Mark M. McMillin
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Michael Aye
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Michael Hagen
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Richard Woodman
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Robert H. Fowler
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Stephen W. Meader
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William Clark Russell