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An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
Nautical short stories (6 P) Submarines in fiction (5 C, 32 P) T. Nautical television series (7 C, 63 P) W. Works set at sea (4 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Nautical ...
Marie Celeste – from the short story J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1884 (the real ship was Mary Celeste) Mary Deare – The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, 1956; M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Pages in category "Nautical short stories" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. The Day's Work;
Its subject is the life of a naval pilot during the American Revolution. It is often considered the earliest example of nautical fiction in American literature. It is one of Cooper's most renowned works and is considered a classic of adventure literature. The novel follows the thrilling adventures of a mysterious and daring seafarer known as ...
This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
Macdonnell wrote stories for The Bulletin under the pseudonym "Macnell" and from 1948 to 1956 he was a member of The Bulletin staff. His first book, Fleet Destroyer – a collection of stories about life on the small ships – was published by The Book Depot , Melbourne , in 1945.