Stephen W. Meader

Stephen Warren Meader (1892-1977) was a Philadelphia-based advertising copywriter who wrote 44 books, all for young adults. Some are regarded as HNF

AOS Naval Fiction

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Year  Book  Comment
  Guns for the Saratoga Gideon Jones enrols as a midshipman on the Saratoga during the Revolutionary War
1812 Clear for Action! Jeff Robbins, a Maine boy, on a cargo schooner is impressed for service aboard a British frigate.
  Phantom of the Blockade Life aboard a Confederate blockade runner Gray Witch.

AOS Privateer Fiction

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Year  Book  Comment
  A Blow for Liberty Jed Starbuck serves aboard the privateer schooner, the True Patriot, during the Revolutionary War
  The Cape May Packet Captain Ezra Hand and his son Will fit out their packet sloop, Fair Molly, as a privateer.

AOS Pirate Fiction

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Year  Book  Comment
  The Black Buccaneer A boy is carried away by pirates on a perilous trip to the West Indies

AOS Other Nautical Fiction

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Year  Book  Comment
1821 Away to Sea Jim Slater runs away to sea and finds he is one of the crew of a slave ship bound for Africa
  The Voyage of the Javelin Bob Wingate watched the Javelin being built and is given a berth on her first voyage.
  Whaler 'Round the Horn Rodney Glenn shipped out of New Bedford on the Pelican for a voyage round Cape Horn.

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