Bloody Nick returns from the Mediterranean tired – he has done too much, seen too much, and needs rest at home. His ship, HBMS Hawke, needs time in the yard.
Captain John Wharton RN is called back to duty on the orders of Rear Admiral Cochrane as captain of the three-deck, 74-gun battleship HMS Warlord. Warlord is bound for the West Indies to seek and destr…
France and Britain are finally at peace and many of the ships in the Royal Navy’s vast fleet are laid up. In the circumstances, Lieutenant John Wharton RN is amazed to be able to find the position of …
Clear for Action continues the extraordinary true story of the naval career of the Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars. Clear for Action covers Westropp’s…
Majesticis a novel set in the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars as the Royal Navy fights the French for supremacy across the oceans of the world. It continues the career of Midshipman Johnni…
Lieutenant Gilbert Maltravers is bored. It is 1912 and he has been promoted as fast as any in his Dartmouth class and is placed in a battleship where he can confidently look forward to promotion to po…
Set course for Trafalgar is a novel based on the extraordinary true naval career of Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars. He served in Nelson’s Royal Na…
Midshipman Johnnie Wharton has no idea when he joins HMS St George as a 12-year-old that he is soon to take part in some of the greatest sea battles of Nelson’s Royal Navy. Life aboard his next ship HM…
The freshly promoted Lieutenant Johnnie Wharton RN, now recovered from the horrors of the Battle of the Nile, is ordered to Plymouth to join the Royal Navy’s newest battleship HMS Ajax as secondlieut…
In 1804, Captain John Wharton RN takes command of HMS Leopard, his first as captain as the war with France continues for yet another year. A 38-gun frigate, Leopard is the newest ship in the Royal Nav…
