Most Read This Week In Maritime

Maritime fiction has several names - Nautical Fiction, Naval Fiction, Sea Fiction, Sea Stories or Naval Adventure Fiction. It is a genre of literature with a setting at or near the sea, focusing on human relationships to the sea and sea voyages. Nautical culture is highlighted. The settings vary widely, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, sea ports, etc.

Maritime fiction may focus on oceanic wildlife such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), or fantasy creatures and legends such as the Mermaid or Kraken.

Common themes include the sub-genres Shipwreck and Pirates.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Maritime"

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)

The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)

Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury (NUMA Files #20)

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege

Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark ― A Shark Expert's Hunt Along the New England Coast

The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea

Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic

Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960

Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them

Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

A Swift and Savage Tide (Captain Kit Brightling, #2)

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

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“ I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.' 'Has anyone told the French that?' The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.' I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle no ...more ”
― Tim Fitzhigham, In the Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

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“ The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way. ”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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