Electronic Nautical Books Electronic Nautical Books Full texts of the following books are available on the Internet and may be read off the screen or downloaded, in many cases chapter by chapter. These are on third-party sites, but we hope later to include some gems from our own library. If you find errors or know of other nautical ebooks that might be included, please let the webmaster know.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | * | Date |
| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) | The Cruise of the Dolphin | F | |
| Ames, Azel, 1845-1908 | The Mayflower and Her Log - 6 volumes | NF | |
| Ballantyne, R.M.,1825-1894 | Coral Island | F | 1858 |
| Baring-Gould, Sabine, 1834-1924 | Mehalah: a Story of the Salt Marshe | F | 1850 |
| Becke, Louis (1855-1913) | The Naval Pioneers of Australia | NF | 1899 |
| Belloc, Hilaire 1870-1953) | The Historic Thames | NF | |
| Binning, Arthur J | SURVIVORS. A WW2 survival story of the U-Boat U188 and two of her victims | NF | 1994 |
| Bishop, Nathaniel H. 1737-1902 | VOYAGE of THE PAPER
CANOE |
NF | 1878 |
| Bishop, Nathaniel H. 1737-1902 | Four Months in a Sneak-Box
|
N | 1879 |
| Childers, Erskine 1837-1902 | The Riddle of the Sands | F | 1903 |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1875-1912 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | V | 1858 |
| Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Heart of Darkness | F | 1902 |
| Dana, Henry, 1815-1882 | Two Years before The Mast | NF | 1914 |
| Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Voyage of the Beagle | NF | 1839 |
| Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Coral Reefs | NF | 1842 |
| Davis, John | The Seamans
Secrets |
NF | 1657 |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | F | 1719 |
| Lord Dufferin | Letters from High Latitudes, Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen | NF | 1856 |
| Fenger, Frederic A. | Alone in the Caribbean | NF | 1917 |
| Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 | Journal of a voyage to Lisbon | NF | 1755 |
| France, Anatole, 1844-1924 | Penguin Island | F | 1908 |
| Frazer, Perry D | Canoe Cruising and Camping | NF | 1897 |
| Hakluyt, Richard, 1552-1616 | Voyager's Tales | F | |
| Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 | The Life of Christopher Columbus | NF | 1909 |
| Haies, Edward, fl. 1580. | Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland | NF | 1583 |
| Umland, Henning, ? - | A Short Guide to Celestial Navigation | NF | 2004 |
| Hodgson, William Hope | The Ghost Pirates | F | 1909 |
| Holm, Donald, 19**-2002 | The Circumnavigators: Small Boat Voyagers of Modern Times | NF | 1974 |
| Homer | The Odyssey | F | 800BC |
| Jerome, Jerome. K | Three men in a boat | F | 1909 |
| Knight, E.F. | The Cruise of the 'Alerte': in Search of Treasure | NF | 1928 |
| Knight, E.F. | The 'Falcon' on the Baltic - Hammersmith to Copenhagen | NF | 1886 |
| Knight, E.F. | Sailing - a how-to handbook | NF | 1928 |
| Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 | Mariner of St. Malo: a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier | NF | 1915 |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | A Classic of the Sea, South Sea tales, The Cruise of | F | 1911 |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | Small Boat Sailing (and other stories) | F | var. |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | The Sea Wolf | F | 1904 |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | The Cruise of the Snark | 1913 | |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | The Nigger of the Narcissus | F | 1897 |
| London, Jack, 1876-1916 | Lord Jim | F | 1900 |
| Lutus, Paul | Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (zip, 161pp) | NF | 1991 |
| MacGregor, John 1825-1892 | A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe | NF | 1866 |
| Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 | Masterman Ready | FY | 1841 |
| Martyr, Weston | The £200 Millionaire - a delightful short story, read it in an hour! | F | 1932 |
| McKinley, Paul, 1919-1996 | Cruiser Scout: Recollections of War in the Pacific | NF | 1999 |
| Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 | Moby Dick | F | 1851 |
| Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 | Billy Budd, Foretopman | F | 1891 |
| Neidé, Dr. Charles A., | THE CANOE AURORA: A C R U I S E FROM THE ADIRONDACKS TO THE GULF | NF | 1885 |
| Paine, Ralph (1871-1925) | Old Merchant Marine, The; a chronicle of American ships and sailors | NF | |
| Platt, Robert L. | Longboaters | FY | 1995 |
| Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 | Captain Blood | F | 1922 |
| Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877 | The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter | NF | 1861 |
| Seymour, Teddy, | No Frills Circumnavigation Only published on Internet | NF | 1987 |
| Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1910 | Voyage of the 'Liberdade | NF | 1894 |
| Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1910 | Sailing Alone Around the World | NF | 1899 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 | Treasure Island | F | 1883 |
| Tomlinson, Henry Major, 1873-1958 | London River | NF | 1921 |
| Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | F | 1869 |
| Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | In Search Of Castaways(large print) | F | |
| Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Around the world in 80 days | F | 1873 |
| Warington Smyth | Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia | NF | 1906 |
| * Fiction/Non-fiction/Verse Y = for young readers | |||
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