Short lives of English seamen from the age of the Armada onward: three generations of the Hawkins family, Lord Howard of Effingham, Martin Frobisher, Thomas Cavendish, Walter Raleigh, Robert Blake and others, ending with Sir Cloudesley Shovel. The stories mix voyages of discovery with sea fights against Spain, the Dutch and privateers.
Victorian naval history for young readers, full of seamanship and patriotic swagger. Download the free EPUB.