Cruel Seas : World War 2 Merchant Marine-Related Nautical Fiction
from the 1930s to Present
An Annotated Bibliography of Short Stories, Novels & Novellas
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Sale, Richard (1911-1993)
"Cape Spectre." In: Argosy Weekly, vol. 310, nos. 3-6, Aug. 30 - Sept. 20, 1941, 4-part serial. [Summary]
"Flight of the Wankus Bird." In: Esquire Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, Oct. 1943, pp. 46-47 & 167-174. [Summary]
"Last Trip." In: Short Stories Magazine (Canadian edition), vol. 177, no. 11, Aug. 1943, pp. 169-175. [Summary]
"Nothing to Report." In: The American Magazine, vol. 133, no. 6, June 1942, pp. 26-28 & 109-111. Illustrations by John Gannam. [Summary]
"Short Voyage Home." In: Argosy Weekly, vol. 306, no. 5, Mar. 29, 1941, pp. 53-55. [Summary]
"Torpedo." In: Adventure Magazine, vol. 106, no. 1, November 1941, pp. 11-17. [Summary]
"Warhead." In: Argosy Weekly, vol. 309, no. 3, July 19, 1941, pp. 18-22. [Summary]
Sanders, Leonard
Act of War: A Novel of Love and Treason. New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster,1982. 396 p. [Summary]
Saxton, Alexander (1919- )
Bright Web in the Darkness New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1958. 308 p. [Summary]
Schisgall, Oscar (1926- )
"I'll Never Go Back." In: Liberty Magazine, vol. 19, no. 50, Dec. 12, 1942, p. 22. [Summary]
"Wings of Wrath." In: Liberty Magazine, vol. 17, nos. 20-25, May 18 - June 22, 1940, 6-part serial. [Summary]
Schubert, Paul
"Lover's Touch" In: The American Magazine, vol. 130, no. 4, Oct. 1940, p. 23. [Summary]
Schulberg, Budd (1914- )
"Passport to Nowhere." In: Story: The Magazine of the Short Story, vol. 12, no. 70, May 1938, pp. 55-77. [Summary]
Scott, Douglas (1926- )
The Albatross Run. London, Eng.: Secker & Warburg, 1986. 249 p. [Summary]
The Burning of the Ships. London, Eng.: Secker & Warburg, 1980. 346 p. [Summary]
Chains. London, Eng.; Secker & Warburg, 1984. 342 p. [Summary]
Die for the Queen. London, Eng.; Secker & Warburg, 1981. 300 p. [Summary]
Scott, James Maurice
Sea-Wyf and Biscuit. London, Eng.: William Heinemann, 1955. 191 p. [Summary]
Scott, Justin (1944- )
Normandie Triangle. New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, 1981. 475 p. [Summary]
"Sea-Wrack" (Pseudonym)
SEE Edward Horace CrebbinSercombe, Ronald G. (1893-1965)
"Bessie Arbruster Goes a Scuttlin'." In: Liberty Magazine, vol. 21, no. 22, May 27, 1944, pp. 24-26 & 72-73. Illustrations by Carl Mueller. [Summary]
"Bessie Arbruster Snags a Whuppersnapper." In: Liberty Magazine, vol. 21, no. 37, Sept. 9, 1944, pp. 28-29 & 72-75. Illustrations by Carl Mueller. [Summary]
Shaw, Frank H. (1878- )
Convoy Captain. London, Eng.: Stanley Paul & Company, 1944. 171 p.
Shaw, Irwin (1913- )
"Faith at Sea." In: The New Yorker, vol. 19, no. 13, May 15, 1943, pp. 17-22. [Summary]
"Sailor off the Bremen." In: The New Yorker, vol. 15, no. 2, Feb. 25, 1939, pp. 15-18. Later published in Shaw’s Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories (New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1939, pp. 3-20). [Summary]
Sherlock, John (1932- ) and David Westheimer
The Amindra Gamble. New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982. 319 p. [Summary]
Small, Sidney Herschel (1893- )
"The Castaways." In: The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 218, no. 10, Sept. 8, 1945, pp. 28-29, 65, 67, 70, 72 & 74. Illustrations by Melbourne Brindle. [Summary]
"Lady at Sea." In: The American Magazine, vol. 127, no. 4, April 1939, pp. 48-51 & 116-120. Illustrations by Donald Teague. [Summary]
Smith, Patrick D. (1927- )
The Seas That Mourn: A Novel. Melbourne, Fla.: Sea Bird Publishing, 2003. 276 p. [Summary]
Smythe, Tom
Atlantic Tramp. London, Eng.: Jarrolds, 1942. 168 p. [Summary]
Sorenson, Harold Francis
"Delivery at Sea." In: Short Stories Magazine, vol. 185, no. 2, Oct. 25, 1943, pp. 144-155. Illustrations by Humiston. [Summary]
Sperry, Armstrong
Hull-Down for Action Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. 213 p. Illustrations by the author. [Summary]
Steele, Wilbur Daniel (1886-1970)
"The Dark Hour." In: The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 166, no. 3, Sept. 1940, pp. 318-322. Originally published In: The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 121, no. 5, May 1918, pp. 677-682. Later published In: The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward J. O’Brien (Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, 1919), pp. 258-267. [Summary]
Steni, L.
Soldier Adrift. London, Eng.: Heinemann, 1954. 251 p. [Summary]
Sterling, Stewart
"Fire Eater." In: Argosy, vol. 316, no. 2, Sept. 1943, pp. 35-39. Illustrations by Sterne Stevens. [Summary]
Stern, George
"Masters' Conference." In: Esquire Magazine, vol. 17, no. 6, June 1942, pp. 29 & 176-177. [Summary]
"Petticoat Influence." In: Maclean’s, vol. 56, no. 22, Nov. 15, 1943, pp. 10-11 & 53. Illustrations by Dudley Gloyne Summers. [Summary]
Storm, Hans Otto (1895-1941)
Made in U.S.A. New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green & Company, 1939. 181 p. [Summary]
Strabel, Thelma (1900- )
"The Flaming Tree." In: The American Magazine, vol. 138, no. 6, Dec. 1944, pp. 48-79. [Summary]
Strachey, John
"Ship in Convoy." In: The New Yorker, vol. 19, no. 18, June 19, 1943, pp. 20-26. [Summary]
Sturdy, John Rhodes
"The Grey Funnel Line." In: Maclean’s, vol. 58, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1945, pp. 16-17 & 29. Illustrations by Evan Greene. [Summary]
"The Story of Maitland's Reply." In: Esquire Magazine, vol. 21, no. 5, May 1944, pp. 56-57 & 128. [Summary]
"Without Convoy." In: Argosy Magazine, vol. 315, no. 4, May 1943, pp. 59-63. Illustrations by Peter Stevens. [Summary]
Sullivan, Frank
"Nobody But Nobody Undersells Uncle Sam." In: The New Yorker, vol. 28, no. 52, Feb. 14, 1953, pp. 28-29. [Summary]
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Taylor, Samuel W. (1907-1997)
"The Expert." In: The American Magazine, vol. 135, no. 5, May 1943, p. 60. Illustrations by Bobri. [Summary]
Taylor, Theodore
To Kill the Leopard. New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. 297 p. [Summary]
Thomason, John W. (1893-1944)
"The Sergeant and the Ship." In: The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 214, no. 1, July 5, 1941, pp. 16-17, 45-46 and 48-49. Illustrations by the author. [Summary]
Thompson, Ray (1926- )
The Watery Hell. Joppa, Md.: Creative Books, 1993. 334 p. [Summary]
Thorne, Anthony
I'm a Stranger Here Myself. London, Eng.: William Heinemann, 1943. 188 p. [Summary]
Toksvig, Signe (1891-1983)
Life Boat: A Novel. London, Eng.: Faber & Faber, 1941. 293 p. [Summary]
Torode, William G.
"Too Old for Service." In: The Saturday Evening Post, vol. 215, no. 3, July 18, 1942, pp. 20-21 & 68-70. Illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer. [Summary]
Townend, William (1881-1962)
And Now England. London, Eng.: Chapman & Hall, 1939. 448 p. [Summary]
"The Death Ship." In: Short Stories Magazine, vol. 181, no. 6, Dec. 25, 1942, pp. 39-50. [Summary]
Fifth Column Family. London, Eng.: Chapman & Hall, 1940. 333 p. [Summary]
"Happy Ever After." In: Sailors Must Yarn (London, Eng.: Chapman and Hall, 1939), pp. 202-222.[Summary]
Red Ensign-White Ensign London, Eng.: Chapman & Hall, 1942. 332 p. [Summary]
"Rendezvous." In: Collier’s Magazine, vol. 105, no. 7, Feb. 17, 1940, pp. 18-19 & 43-44. Illustrations by Harry Morse Meyers. [Also appeared in Great Britain in the Strand Magazine, vol. 98, April 1940] [Summary]
Sabina's Brother. London, Eng.: Rich & Cowan, 1945. 232 p. [Summary]
The Ship's Company. London, Eng.: Rich & Cowan, 1951. 312 p. [Summary]
Sink and Be Damned. London, Eng.: Chapman & Hall, 1940. 252 p. [Summary]
The Three Brothers. London, Eng.: Rich & Cowan, 1955. 240 p. [Summary]
Travers, Robert J. (1911-1974)
20th Meridian. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1951. [Summary]
Trew, Antony
Kleber's Convoy. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 1973. 222 p. [Summary]
Tute, Warren (1914- )
Leviathan. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Company, 1959. 378 p. [Summary]
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