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Collins asked Geoff Hunt in 1988 to do the cover art for the twelve books published by then, with The Letter of Marque being the first book to have Hunt's work on the first edition. He continued to paint the covers for future books; the covers were used on both USA and UK editions. [5] [6] Reissues of earlier novels used the Geoff Hunt covers ...
The Golden Ocean is a historical novel written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1956.It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins George Anson's voyage around the world beginning in 1740.
Midshipmen studied at the academy for four years and trained aboard ships each summer. [52] Midshipman began to mean "passed midshipman" at this time, and a student at the Naval Academy was a cadet midshipman. [33] The rank of ensign was created in 1862, and passed midshipmen were promoted to ensign when vacancies occurred. [33]
In 1740, he accompanied George Anson on his voyage around the world as a midshipman aboard one of the several ships in the squadron.. Wreck of the Wager. On 14 May 1741, HMS Wager was shipwrecked on the coast of Chile on what is now called Wager Island and Byron was one of the survivors. [3]
Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017 [1] [2]), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars. He wrote a total of 68 novels, selling 34 million copies in twenty languages.
In addition to historic naval adventure fiction such as the Midshipman Quinn and Lieutenant Michael Fitton series set during the Napoleonic Wars, and non-fiction works on mountains and such as The Mountaineer's Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.
Robert Pitcairn (6 May 1752 – c. 1770) was a Scottish midshipman in the Royal Navy. Pitcairn Island was named after him: he was the first person to spot the island, on 2 July 1767 (ship's time), while serving in a voyage in the South Pacific on HMS Swallow, captained by Philip Carteret.
Richard Bolitho, Midshipman is a novel in the Bolitho series of nautical fiction set in the late-18th-century Royal Navy, written by Douglas Reeman under the pseudonym Alexander Kent. The book was published in 1975. It was the eighth novel in the series, though it is set earlier than the others, at the start of the career of Richard Bolitho.