The Boy who sailed with Blake

Mr Harvey looked so astonished when Dick and I were introduced, that he almost betrayed us. Quickly, however, recovering himself, he opened his arms and embraced us affectionate...

Scarcely were we on board the ship than the gale came down with greater fury than before, so that the seamen being required to hand the sails left us to ourselves. Two or three...

Lancelot and I had formed a plan with Lieutenant Aylett, by which we deemed that it would be possible, though no more than possible, to recover our two sisters, Mr Kerridge, and...

The fate of honest Martin hung in the balance; should I fail to strike up the captain's arm, his death would be certain. Whether or no my action had been observed I could not te...

After the failure of her attempt to board us, the corsair hauled aft her sheets and shot ahead of the _Good Hope_. We believing that she intended to rake us, quickly got headsai...

On came the enemy with determination. Fiercely the battle raged--again and again the foot advanced up to the embankment, each time retreating from the storm of bullets, case sho...

I must pass over some months, during which the _Triumph_, having returned into port, we three friends paid a visit to Lyme, the admiral promising to send for us when he should n...

"Hark! the bells of Saint Michael's are sending forth a jovial peal!" exclaimed Lancelot Kerridge, as he, Dick Harvey, and I were one day on board his boat fishing for mackerel,...

The hopes of those who expected to return home were destined to be disappointed. We were still at sea, keeping a look-out for the fleet of the royal corsairs, when a shout from...

The _Good Hope_ had got well to the southward. Hitherto things had gone on smoothly, though we found our crew less inclined to submit to discipline than we desired. Neither did...

The news brought by the _Diamond_ made the officers and crews of the squadron eager to return to England to avenge the insult put upon the English flag by Van Tromp. The crew of...

When morning broke, gloomy and tempestuous, and we stood out from under the lee of Cape Grisnez, so as to get a view of the coast, where we had seen the Dutch anchor, great was...