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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 5
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Description
It's 1786 and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last, the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the same old rakehell he always was. Scandal sets tongues wagging in the Bahamas as the young captain thumbs his nose at propriety and makes a few well-planned conquests on land before sailing off to take on Calico Jack Finney, the boldest pirate in the Caribbean....
Series
Publisher
Distribued by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English captain sailed during the Napoleanic Era, and outthought, outmanouvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 3
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xiii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Richard Bolitho stories volume 5
Formats
Description
As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vital military supplies. Caught up in the turmoil, junior officer Richard Bolitho finds himself having to make momentous decisions in the heat of battle-decisions that could affect the lives of many men and, perhaps, even the fate of nations.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 1
Publisher
Fawcett
Pub. Date
1998, c1989
Physical Desc
368 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 16
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
358 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
After peace between France and England abruptly ends, Captain Alan Lewrie must flee Paris, but soon he has a chance to seek revenge on his former French host in a stunning sea chase that will test him like no other challenge he has faced.
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 14
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
10) The Bounty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
12) The sand pebbles
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
13) Beat to quarters
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1999, 1966.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua - a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS "Lydia", to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landoner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line "Natividad" or face court-martial....
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Series
John Pearce novels volume 15
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers. Back in England their problems continue: Pearce must seek to mend fences with Emily Barclay, in a relationship in which...
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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 21
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative...
Series
Adventure collection volume disc 1-4
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 100 min. each) : sd., col. ; c 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, the story of Horatio Hornblower, the legendary sea-faring hero, follows the raw recruit as he battles the French, evades capture, and rises through the ranks of the King's Navy.
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Series
Charles Hayden novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
435 pages
Description
"Charles Hayden returns in the thrilling new naval adventure from bestselling author S. Thomas Russell, today's "Patrick O'Brian for a new generation" (Kirkus Reviews). Master and Commander Charles Hayden has received fresh orders that take him and the HMS Themis to the Caribbean, with instructions to meddle with French shipping to the colonies. While en route, they rescue two Spanish castaways who beg for help fleeing from a vengeful family situation-Hayden...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"On a September day in 1813, as the Age of Fighting Sail was coming to an end, two maritime warriors faced each other in the waters off Pemaquid Point, Maine. Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty's brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor over life and death, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. The battle lasted less than an hour,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 390 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community's monumental contribution to that effort.
One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea-- a U-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives. The Mathews Men tells the story of what it was like...
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