William Clark Russell

My dandy-rigged yacht, the Spitfire, of twenty-six tons, lay in Boulogne harbour, hidden in the deep shadow of the wall against which she floated. It was a breathless night, dark despite the wide spread of cloudless sky that was brilliant with stars. It was hard upon the hour of midnight, and low down where we lay we heard but dimly such sounds of life as was still abroad in the Boulogne streets. Ahead of us loomed the shadow of a double-funnelled steamer-an inky dye of scarcely determinable proportions upon the black and silent waters of the harbour. The Capecure pier made a faint, phantom-like line of gloom as it ran seawards on our left, with here and there a lump of shadow denoting some collier fast to the skeleton timbers. The stillness was impressive; from the sands came a dull and distant moan of surf; the dim strains of a concertina threaded the hush which seemed to dwell like something material upon the black, vague shape of a large brig almost directly abreast of us. We were waiting for the hour of midnight to strike and our ears were strained. "What noise is that?" I exclaimed."

A Marriage at Sea

A Collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions

Sailors' Language

Pictures from the Life of Nelson

A Romance

The Hunchback's Charge

A Novel

The Tragedy of Ida Noble

Marooned

A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal Descriptions, Etc. Etc. Etc. Wholly Referring to English Men of Letters in Every Age of English Literature

The Book of Authors

The Romance of a Wreck

My Shipmate Louise

From a Privateersman's Log, 1812

An Ocean Free-lance

A Sea Queen : a Novel

The Captain's Wife

Vol. 2

My Shipmate Louise: The Romance of a Wreck

The Two Captains

His Island Princess

A Romance of Incident

List, Ye Landsmen!

A Narrative of Her Loss on One of the Bahama Cays, from the Account of a Guest on Board : in Two Volumes

The "Lady Maud:" Schooner Yacht

A Sea Queen

An Account of the Wreck of the Sailing Ship "Waldershare, " from the Narrative of Mr. William Lee, Second Mate

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Wrong Side Out

William Clark Russell

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