War at Sea series by Richard Testrake (#1-2 , 5-11)
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Overview: Richard Testrake resides in Pennsylvania with his wife and Miniature Schnauzer. A seventy-something year old senior, he enjoys reading, writing and spending time with his wife and family.
He is listed under related authors as much of his work is only short stories or novellas
Genre: Genre Fiction > War
On the King’s Sea Service: A John Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 1) :
In the final decade of the Eighteenth Century, the Kingdom of France, its people suffering severe poverty because of the overwhelming financial woes of the country, as well as discriminatory treatment of the underclasses, broke out in violent revolution. At first taking their cue from the previous struggle of the then fledgling United States, the rebellion soon degenerated.
The initial violence began to feed upon itself and bloody revolution spread across all of France. Surprisingly, the struggle spread into neighboring countries.
Early in 1793, Great Britain and Republican France went to war. This lasted, with a pair of short interruptions, until 1815.
For much of this war, Britain strained at every seam to prevent French forces from crossing the Channel. For much of the war, the Royal Navy was the bulwark that prevented invasion, just as it did a century and a half in the future.
Our fictional Royal Naval officer in this book is representative of those larger than life figures that saved the British Isles from conquest.
For the Honor of the Flag: A John Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 2) :
HMS Courageous, an eighteen pounder, 36 gun frigate, would soon be leaving Portsmouth for duty with the Channel Fleet. Ostensibly, she has come in to port to take aboard some experimental 36 pounder carronades, but the main reason was to determine how some secret documents captured from French sources were exposed to public scrutiny.
Captain John Phillips, commanding the frigate, will take her out to re-join the fleet blockading French naval forces in their ports. While on this duty, he is seriously wounded and there is a question whether he can remain in service as an active-duty officer.
Taking a wife, he and his bride sail to America, where he purchases a small merchant vessel, and contemplates going into the shipping business. An encounter with a French privateer and later discussions with Admiralty officials bring him back to his true calling. Captain John Phillips will continue earning fame and fortune from the King’s enemies.
HMS DREADNAUGHT: A John Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 5) :
A Royal Navy officer is offered command of a 64 gun ship-of-the-line in the year 1808. With the enemy building warships in shipyards all around Europe, Britain is straining to keep her enemy Napoleon Bonaparte and his French Navy contained.
Bonaparte makes a fatal mistake when he deposes the King and Crown Prince of Spain, his ally. When Spain revolts, our officer, Captain John Phillips, takes his ship to the Iberian Peninsula to combat the French forces and to assist the Spanish and Portuguese people in their revolt against the oppressor.
HMS RESOLVE: A John Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 6) :
During the Napoleonic War era, Captain John Phillips, RN takes command of the frigate HMS Resolve. His son Timothy now serving beside him as a midshipman, he is handicapped by his latest marital difficulties. The orders for his new mission take him from his problems at home and send him to the Mediterranean where he must deliver a consignment of gold and silver coin. After battling pirates and corrupt officials, he, his ship and crew are successful.
Returning to the Atlantic, off the coast of Portugal, he and his son battle French naval forces. Later, he is sent to the Caribbean where pirates are causing havoc with British trade. His fortunes on the mend (at least temporarily) with his wife, he receives an audience with King George III in recognition with his naval successes.
His Magesty’s Brig Alert: A Tim Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 7) :
Because more suitable candidates have been sent away on other prizes, a young midshipman is placed in command of a captured armed enemy brig by his father, Captain John Phillips, commanding HMS Resolve. Given the temporary ranking of master’s mate, Mister Tim Phillips is to bring the vessel safely to the remainder of the squadron on blockade duty off the mouth of the Tagus.
On the way however, he manages to defeat and take an enemy vessel more powerful than his own. Impressed, the admiral commanding the squadron informs him that, while he cannot promote the under-aged Phillips, he will purchase the brig into the fleet to use as a dispatch vessel, leaving Phillips in command as Master’s Mate.
Phillips must oversee putting his new brig into commission and obtain a crew. The tasks assigned him by the Royal Navy will test his abilities.
Sails Across the Sea: A Tim Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 8 ) :
In this, the eighth volume, of the War at Sea series, Commander Timothy Phillips RN, finds himself on the beach in Britain. He has returned from a cruise in the Baltic where he has taken some valuable prizes, and is now waiting on necessary repairs to his ship, HMS Alert. While visiting the family estate, the ship takes fire and is consumed.
A patron in the Admiralty, realizing the difficulty was no fault of young Phillips, gives him command of a Cruizer class gunbrig. He is tasked to take the vessel on a mission to the Eastern Mediterranean, in an effort to discover the location of the wife of a prominent government official who has been taken by Moorish pirates.
Issues developed in this undertaking which were necessary to be kept under wraps. It being deemed necessary to keep the young officer away from the press, it was decided to send him on a long voyage to Africa and the East Indies to suppress piracy. Returning to Britain months later, these issues still persist so the officer repairs to the countryside, where he purchases an estate. His continuing adventures will be related in a later volume.
Across to America: A Tim Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 9) :
With the completion of his previous mission, political considerations make it desirable that Timothy Phillips remain away from Britain. Accordingly, he is promoted to Post Captain, given a new ship and sent to deliver an envoy to Simon Bolivar in the Province of Venezuela, in Spanish America.
While away on this mission he finds the United States had declared war on Great Britain .
During the course of that war, the pirate commander of a powerful ship has begun terrorizing commerce of both the United States and Britain in the Caribbean.
Phillips and a counterpart in the US Navy united temporarily to defeat this deadly foe.
Ships of Oak, Men of Iron: A Tim Phillips Novel (War at Sea Book 10) :
Captain Timothy Phillips, back from America has returned to his home for some much needed rest. While there, a young woman he meets at a dance, develops an unwanted attraction for him. Spurned, she incites a young officer to challenge him to a duel. Surviving the duel, he returns to his ship and is ordered to return to American waters, where he is to locate sources of shipbuilding materials and naval stores to send home, where they will be utilized in refurbishing old ships and building new ones.
Succeeding in his mission, he returns home in command of a new ship. He is sent to join Admiral Pellew’s fleet in the Mediterranean, where he assists in the blockade of France and assists in the suppression of piracy. Later, he is tasked with bringing a cargo of specie from Brazil back to Britain, where it will become part of the funds used to prosecute the war against Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces. During these activities, he becomes involved in a relationship with the woman that incited the duel he was compelled to fight earlier.
Thunder On the Sea: A Tim Phillips novel (War at Sea Book 11) :
Returning from a mission to Brazil, Captain Tim Phillips returns to London to find a former paramour waiting on the quay. Very pregnant with his child, the couple marry, but his new wife soon dies from the ravages of childbed fever.
The war has ended with the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte and Phillips retires to his country estate.
Becoming bored with the tranquil life, he does not object when he is called to command an expedition to South America.
As he is about to sail, it is learned that Bonaparte has escaped from exile on Elba and the war is back on again.
Phillips sails on to adventure in Mediterranean, Caribbean and African waters.
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