Dark Frigate

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure

Authors: Charles Boardman Hawes In Year : 1923

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Dark Frigate

Chapter 1: Flight
Chapter 2: A Leal Man and a Fool
Chapter 3: Two Sailors on Foot
Chapter 4: The Girl at the Inn
Chapter 5: Sir John Bristol
Chapter 6: The Rose of Devon
Chapter 7: The Ship's Liar
Chapter 8: Storm
Chapter 9: The Master's Guest
Chapter 10: Between Midnight and Morning
Chapter 11: Head Winds and a Rough Sea
Chapter 12: The Porcupine Ketch
Chapter 13: A Bird to be Limed
Chapter 14: A Wonderful Excellent Cook
Chapter 15: A Lonesome Little Town
Chapter 16: The Harbour of Refuge
Chapter 17: Will Canty
Chapter 18: Tom Jordan's Mercy
Chapter 19: A Man Seen Before
Chapter 20: A Prize for the Taking
Chapter 21: Ill Words Come True
Chapter 22: Back to the Inn
Chapter 23: And Old Sir John
Chapter 24: And Again the Rose of Devon

The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and galleons. Mistaking an English man-of-war for a merchantman, they are captured and brought back to England for trial. Only one, an English lad, Philip Marsham, a member of the original crew of the Rose, is acquitted; and he, after adventures in the forces of King Charles, tires of Cromwell's England and sails for Barbados once more on the Rose of Devon.

The Dark Frigate has long been a favorite story for boys and in 1924 was awarded the John Newbery Medal, given annually "for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

When The Dark Frigate was first published F. F. Van deWater in The New York Tribune said: "No one, we think, has written so perfect a pirate tale since Treasure Island." (from the dustjacket of the first edition)