Title: The king's own
First published: 1830
Description: William Seymour grows up on shipboard in the Royal Navy, after his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), and later, he is impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of an English captain who deliberately lost his frigate on a lee shore, in order to wreck a French line-of-battle ship.
Subjects: Fiction, Naval History, Nore Mutiny, 1797, Historical Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century