Bücher der Reihe Classics of Naval Fiction

Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on a British East India vessel.

Lieutenant Cornelius van-slyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Channel. Snarleyyow is his indestructible dog.

This gripping saga of the sea follows the disastrous voyage of the Grosvenor of the British Mercantile Marine. The ship is bound for Valparaiso, and aboard are a brutal and inhumane captain and chief mate. The ship's second mate is our hero.