Halfhyde Adventure Series by Philip McCutchan (#10-16)
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Overview: Philip McCutchan (1920-1996) grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime’s interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest resulting in several fiction books, from amongst his large output, about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
#10 – Halfhyde Outward Bound
The daring Lieutenant Halfhyde sets sail with an unsavory crew of criminals aboard a merchant vessel bound for Sydney, Australia, and finds himself caught up in a dangerous sea chase with his nemesis, Vice Admiral Paulus von Merkatz
#11 – The Halfhyde Line
St. Vincent Halfhyde, recently separated from Her Majesty’s Royal Navy, becomes the new master and owner of the Taronga Park, the first commercial vessel in the Halfhyde Line. This is Halfhyde’s maiden voyage on this elderly, only-just-seaworthy steamship and the crew are on passage from Sydney, Australia to Queenstown in the south of Ireland. But in the Victorian era, when coal-burning tramp steamers had only just replaced sleek clipper ships, a voyage from Australia to Ireland would have been far from routine. Severe storms and other dangers were commonplace as pre-Panama Canal sailors rounded Cape Horn…
#12 – Halfhyde and the Chain Gangs
Murder and chicanery involving a consignment of gold bullion stalk St Vincent Halfhyde as he takes the square-rigged ship Glen Hallandale on government service from Devonport dockyard to Cape Town. The voyage proves a turbulent one through bad weather and temper-inflaming heat and stickiness of the Doldrums. Vicious fighting develops when a party from a mysterious steam yacht attempts to board the Glen Hallandale, while the chain gangs are stirred to riot by their murderous ringleaders.
#13 – Halfhyde Goes to War
The ill-fated gold bullion Halfyde inadvertently brought to South Africa in Halfhyde and the Chain Gangs is destined to play a further part in his turbulent career. The Boer War is dragging into a series of seemingly interminable sieges and the British army is floundering on unfamiliar terrain against the cunning of the Boer farmers."St. Vincent Halfhyde, merchant sea-captain and ex-Royal Navy officer, has been called back to the colors in the Boer War to guard a consignment of naval gunnery being sent to help General Buller lift the siege of Ladysmith…
#14 – Halfhyde on the Amazon
A horribly mutilated corpse is found aboard the "Taronga Park," and when Detective Inspector Todhunter is embarked to sail with the ship, Halfhyde is unclear whether the policeman’s investigations are confined to the murder.
#15 – Halfhyde and the Admiral
When St. Viincent Halfhyde, captain of the steamer ‘Taronga Park’, is suddenly called to the Admiralty, he finds he has rather more to concern him than the cargo of textiles he was expecting to deliver to Valparaiso in Chile.
#16 – Halfhyde and the Fleet Review
With an extended tour, during which his bravery and seamanship were put to the test, finally behind him, the intrepid Halfhyde returns home for a review by the Queen, and is assigned to act as a buffer between Victoria and the irascible Admiral Watkiss
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