The Honour of the Flag (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The seagoing fiction of W. Clark Russell has been compared to Poe, London, Cooper, Marryat, and William Hope Hodgson. This 1895 collection includes “Cornered!”, “A Midnight Visitor,” “The Strange Adventures of a South Seaman,” “The Adventures of Three Sailors,” “The Strange Tragedy of the ‘White Star,’” and “The Ship Seen on the Ice.”