It is 1803, and Great Britain is at war with France. James Farrant, a naval lieutenant is enjoying the comforts of home while his ship is being repaired.

Coerced into Intelligence by a friend of his father's his adventures lead him into many situations where his inexperience is more of an aid than a hindrance. An adventure story in the finest tradition, our "hero" saves the day, and finds his future wife in the concluding pages.

A Romance with an HNF Background:

Ambitious and handsome, Joshua Andrews had always valued his life too much to take unnecessary risks. Then he laid eyes on the elegant picture of perfection that is Peter Kenyon.

Soon to be promoted to captain, Peter Kenyon is the darling of the Bermuda garrison. With a string of successes behind him and a suitable bride lined up to share his future, Peter seems completely out of reach to Joshua.

A Romance with an HNF Background:

1762. For his first command, John Cavendish is given the elderly bomb vessel HMS Meteor, and a crew as ugly as the ship. He's determined to make a success of their first mission, and hopes the well-liked lieutenant Alfie Donwell can pull the crew together before he has to lead them into battle: stopping the slave trade off the coast of Algiers.

Book 9 in the non-nautical Matthew Hervey military adventure series

Captain Sir Laughton Peto , recently engaged to Matthew Hervey's sister, Elizabeth, has just taken command of HMS Prince Rupert, the only three-deck line-of-battle ship in commission. He is the proud master of a wooden fortress whose formidable firepower is the equal of Bonaparte's grand battery at Waterloo. But his passage to the Ionian - where Admiral Codrington is assembling an Anglo-Russian-French fleet to evict the Turks from Greek waters - will not be smooth sailing. First he must exercise his crew, most of whom have not seen action before. He has also been entrusted with the safe passage to Malta of the Admiral's youngest daughter.

Book 19 in the non-nautical Richard Sharpe series

In his quest to discover the truth about the disappearance of the Donna Louisa Vivar's husband, Richard Sharpe is taken to Chile, where he soon finds himself caught up in the rebellion against Spanish rule and fighting alongside the flamboyant rebel admiral, Lord Thomas Cochrane.

Book 4 in the non-nautical Richard Sharpe series

The year is 1805, and the Calliope, with Richard Sharpe aboard, is captured by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which has been terrorizing British nautical traffic in the Indian Ocean. The French warship races toward the safety of its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that could provoke India into a new war against the British -- and render for naught all that Sharpe has bravely fought for till now. But help comes from an unexpected quarter. An old friend, a captain in the Royal Navy, is on the trail of the Revenant, and Sharpe comes aboard a 74-gun man-of-war called Pucelle in hot pursuit. What results is a breathtaking retelling of one of the most ferocious and one-sided sea battles in European history, in which Nelson -- and Sharpe -- vanquish the combined naval might of France and Spain at Trafalgar.

A novel in which the narrator is Captain (now Admiral) Bligh, in the last few months of his life. He is beset by the domestic mutinies of his daughters and his housekeeper, and interwoven into the narrative are his memories of key events of his life, including the mutiny on the "Bounty"

A Story of Tall Ships in Battle Compiled from the Literature of the Sea and Fashioned into a Novel (Believed to be a theatrical piece converted into a book about Admiral Benbow's 1702 battles with the French in the West Indies during which his officers refused to engage the enemy, their subsequent courts martial and Benbow's death from his wounds.)

Abandoned by his father to drown off the coast of Spain, Tristram Pascoe's life is saved by Sara, who is in a marriage of convenience to a Portuguese nobleman. Suspected of heresy, Sara is brought before the Grand Inquisitor and risks being burnt as a witch to help Tristram escape. Tristram is pressed into service as an English spy, and travels to Cadiz and Lisbon, where the Spanish invasion force is assembling. From the first rumors of a Spanish invasion to the horrors of the Channel firefights, Armada is a story of the triumph of human love over religious conflict.

A story about the naval lieutenant who brought the great news of the fleet's victory at Trafalgar and of Nelson's death in 1805 back to England