Jim Janke’s List of Some
Nautical/Naval/Sea Authors

• James Bassett
• Edward L. Beach
• Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt series
• James L. Haley
• Jan de Hartog
• Seth Hunter, Nathan Peake series
• David Donachie/Tom Connery, John Pearce series
• Alan Evans
• C. S. Forrester
• Hammond Innes
• Dewey Lambdin, Alan Lewrie series
• Alistair MacLean
• Frederick Marryat
• F. Van Wyck Mason
• Nicholas Monsarrat
• James L. Nelson
• Patrick O’Brian, Jack Aubrey series
• C. Northcote Parkinson, Richard Delancey series
• Dudley Pope, Lord Ramage series
• David Poyer
• Douglas Reeman/Alexander Kent, Richard Bolitho series
• S(ean) Thomas Russell, Charles Hayden series
• Julian Stockwin, Thomas Kydd series
• Victor Suthren
• William Westbrook, Nicholas Fallon series
• Richard Woodman, Nathaniel Drinkwater series
• Herman Wouk

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield, in”Sea-Fever”

I wish to have no connection with a ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
John Paul Jones