sailors

In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

Jim, twelve years old, sets sail from Bristol as deckboy on a blockade runner, and arrives in America at the time of the Civil War.

Excerpts from the author's autobiography recall his experiences as a thirteen-year-old boy serving on an American privateer ship during the Revolutionary War.

On June 25, 1828, the Mary Russell sailed into Cork Harbour, Ireland, in tandum with another ship, the Mary Stubbs. The Mary Russell was being piloted by Mary Stubbs sailors and had seven murdered crew members on board, a missing captain, and six survivors of the massacre: four boys and two severely wounded seamen.

A little sailor stomps and dances.

One of many variations of a forecastle chantey created about 1837 by an unknown sailor and named after the bow section of the ship where sailors sometimes bunked or relaxed.

The captain of a World War II submarine recounts the eventful war patrols of his ship, whose sinkings of enemy vessels ranked second among American ships.

Jamie and his father have been on the run for as long as Jamie can remember, and in a dramatic series of events, he learns the real reason why.