Nautical & Marine Fiction

Ballad of the Tempest

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James Thomas Fields


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4t…

In Search of Mademoiselle

Read by Tony Oliva


George Gibbs


Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts…

Typhoon (version 2)

Read by Anthony Ogus


Joseph Conrad


A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…

The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

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William Clark Russell


Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

The Last Buccaneer

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …

Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815

Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)


Thomas Wallace Knox


John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of m…

The Rover

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Joseph Conrad


This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of …

Selected Public Domain Poems

Read by Liam Neely


John Masefield


Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (…

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

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Allan Cunningham


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Mar…

The Pirates

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Morgan Robertson


A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. …

Seaside

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Rupert Brooke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Seaside by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 19, 2012.Rupert Chawn…

The Black Buccaneer

Read by Warren Bergmann


Stephen W. Meader


Two teen boys are kidnapped by pirates along the Atlantic coast of the American colonies in the early 1700s. It is a privilege for me to mak…

The Isle of Dead Ships

Read by Roger Melin


Crittenden Marriott


There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our ve…

The Pirate, and The Three Cutters

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Frederick Marryat


Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys' stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The…

The After House

Read by Tom Penn


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, b…

My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1

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William Clark Russell


Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishe…

The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

The Yarn of Old Harbour Town

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William Clark Russell


This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time …

How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Po…

Dombey en Zoon

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De trotse Dombey, eigenaar van het handelskantoor 'Dombey en zoon', heeft zich als doel in zijn leven gesteld zich in zijn bedrijf te laten …

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