Nautical & Marine Fiction

The Skipper's Wooing

by W. W. Jacobs Read by Alan Lord 3.9
The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Ballad of the Tempest

by James Thomas Fields Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4t…

Nigger of the Narcissus

by Joseph Conrad Read by Tom Crawford 4
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…

Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida

by Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams Read by Stevan Simmons 4.3
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined ent…

Paddeltje, de scheepsjongen van Michiel de Ruijter

by Johan Been Read by Anna Simon 4.4
De avonturen van Klaas Ariensze, bijgenaamd Paddeltje, scheepsjongen van Michiel de Ruijter.Na een eerste tocht als scheepsjongen, moet Padd…

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

by Charles Dickens Read by James E. Carson 3.9
The Wreck of the Golden Mary is a gripping short story by Charles Dickens that transports listeners to the treacherous waters of the 1850s. …

Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

by Bartimeus Read by David Wales 3.6
Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales

Labrador Days

by Sir Wilfred Grenfell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Dive deep into the heart of the Labrador Sea, sharing the rugged lives of fishermen and their indomitable spirit. Wilfred Grenfell, a doctor…

The Ocean Waifs

by Thomas Mayne Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea b…

Poison Island

by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary bec…

My Danish Sweetheart

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Volume 2 begins as our hero winds up his story. But the question remains, what happened to the other boat? Hugh and Helga have been picked u…

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

Black Pawl

by Ben Ames Williams Read by Lee Smalley 4
This riveting novel takes place on a whaling ship, where its captain, Black Pawl, has a troubled relationship with the first mate, his son. …

Abandoned

by William Clark Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves …

Clearing Weather

by Cornelia Meigs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"It is not the money. It is the ships. I must build ships. But no one wants them now." Cornelia Meigs captures the excitement of …

Trafalgar

by Benito Pérez Galdós Read by Tux 4.6
Trafalgar, es el primero de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que es considerado el mayor novelis…

The Ships that Won't Go Down

by Henry Lawson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams wha…

El huésped secreto

by Joseph Conrad Read by Victor Villarraza 4.4
La historia de El huésped secreto se abre con una minuciosa descripción del momento previo a la partida, del instante en que e…

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