Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    1809 Ben Brown On the Beach
    1809 Ben Brown On the Beach
    1809 Ben Brown On the Beach
    Ebook500 pages8 hours

    1809 Ben Brown On the Beach

    By William Bertram

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This is the next book in the series after Ben Brown and the Right of Passage. In this book, we find our hero returning wounded from the battle of Barque Roads, arriving home on the Hospital Ship, along with the other severely wounded men. He is attended by three of his men, who volunteered to bring him home. Although, suffering from a ghastly head wound and hard of hearing now, he makes a remarkable recovery when he arrives home amongst his family.
    Unfortunately, most of his family do not want him to go back to sea again, however, he has other ideas. The crisis comes when his ship arrives back in port and he finds it has to be decommissioned along with the officers going on half pay and the men going into receiving ships including his three servants. Using his family connections, he secures a position on an armed cutter.
    This is the tale of a cheeky young man growing into maturity, as this book progresses he is given more and more chances to take command and to prove his worth. He is mentored by his old Captain and sustained during this adventure by his men. Later in the book he is involved in a desperate fight that will make him assume the mantle of leadership.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Bertram
    Release dateMay 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310282911
    1809 Ben Brown On the Beach
    Author

    William Bertram

    Bill Bertram has for the last forty years researched Britain’s late 18th and early 19th century Merchant and Royal Navy ships. At University, he specialised in the design and performance of wooden warships. He is now a maritime historian and writer living near Devonport Royal Naval Base, England.Bill’s work has been coloured by his historical knowledge and experience of seamanship, he has an unique approach to maritime history and has developed a dramatic style of writing that explores the brass tacks of historic maritime fiction. For him a good story must explain what is going on around the subject, it is extremely important that the background of the story is factually correct.Bill attended Plymouth University for his degree in Maritime History and Marine Technology. His dissertation on the sailing qualities of 19th century warships was rapidly accepted and broadcast on Television and Radio as well as being published in the New Scientist and in journals all around the world. During his time at University, he satisfied his academic curiosity and his need to eat, by becoming a guide at Plymouth Naval Base Museum and a receptionist at Fort Bovisand.For several years, he pursued this speciality further. The next years were fulfilling as a teacher, but retirement threatened and so Bill returned to his major academic love, maritime history, luckily he was in a city steeped in the past glories of her relationship with the sea. Now free from a profession, Bill again returned to his first love, the sea and writing historic novels. As a teenager, Bill loved the Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester and had always dreamed of writing books in that genre.It was at this point in Bill’s history that he decided to write books based on the history of Plymouth and its seafaring people. Resolving to write a mixture of factual and fiction books, his first three books progressed through several generations of the same family, he centred his rags to riches stories around the Brown family. Using factual evidence, he interwove the characters around Plymouth’s 18th century history and streets. This clearly involved many long days of research and fact-finding, however, eventually he wrote his first novel and swiftly followed it with two more in rapid succession. The first three books that Bill wrote are indeed based on an 18th century Plymouthian family who are clearly fictional, however, this can never be said of his novel’s backgrounds, here Bill has meticulously used old maps, drawings and records to build up an historic environment for his characters to exist in.Similarly with the three plays that have been also been composed, these also revolve about the same family, but are set in different centuries, but all involve the Plymouth Brown family and all deal with a period of historical significance.Bill Bertram has since published six books, He lives and writes from his home in Plymouth, for relaxation, Bill visits the sea daily and he is currently the owner of an Edwardian Steamboat in which he potters about.

    Read more from William Bertram

    Related to 1809 Ben Brown On the Beach

    Related ebooks

    Sea Stories Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Close Call

      Jan 6, 2022

      A Close Call
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Selkie Moon

      Dec 3, 2020

      The Selkie Moon
      5 min read

    • Article

      Crossing The Bar

      Mar 11, 2021

      The Edwardian period of English yachting is best remembered for the great cutters and schooners of the racing scene. From Cowes to the Clyde professionally crewed yachts competed for big-money prizes while fortunes changed hands by way of wagers on r

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Galápagos Mermaid

      Apr 1, 2023

      The Galápagos Mermaid
      9 min read

    • Article

      Wreck ’n’ Roll Star For A Day

      Jul 15, 2020

      Wreck ’n’ Roll Star For A Day
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tempting Fate

      May 11, 2023

      Read about sailing all your life and you won’t find another book quite like Bound for Cape Horn, with its interesting subtitle Skills for Expedition Cruising. Any suggestion this might be yet another text book on how to do it is dissipated in the ope

      7 min read

    • Article

      Smeltzer the Musky Angler

      Oct 17, 2020

      Smeltzer the Musky Angler
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Ashes

      Sep 9, 2022

      It’s almost 50 years since my wife Roz and I moved aboard our first serious cruising boat. While paying off our overdraft, we lived in a mud berth on a rickety pier attached to what was then Moody’s yard at the top of the Hamble River. It was univers

      5 min read

    • Article

      Deja Vu All Over Again

      Sep 10, 2021

      Deja Vu All Over Again
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ashore at Dunkirk

      Mar 30, 2023

      Ashore at Dunkirk
      5 min read

    • Article

      The King And I

      Jul 9, 2019

      The King And I
      14 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Oct 28, 2022

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Oct 28, 2022

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Press Ganged!

      May 1, 2020

      Press Ganged!
      3 min read

    • Article

      Paul Heiney

      Oct 28, 2022

      Paul Heiney
      3 min read

    • Article

      Paul Heiney

      Oct 28, 2022

      Paul Heiney
      3 min read

    • Article

      It’s The Taking Part

      Sep 10, 2021

      You’d think that with the year’s favourite virus stamping on any attempts to have fun, this summer would have been a thin one for regattas and festivals. Certainly, some events have been struck off, but the efforts of a number of committees to delive

      5 min read

    • Article

      Time Out

      May 1, 2020

      Hemingway: a real man’s man; red wine, bulls and wrestling with fish were all central themes of a life of unremitting machismo. Having read a bit of Ernest in my time, I generally find that he spends a good deal of time droning on about death, impote

      6 min read

    • Article

      Time Out

      May 1, 2020

      Time Out
      6 min read

    • Article

      Always Alert Accident Avert

      Jul 19, 2019

      Always Alert Accident Avert
      8 min read

    • Article

      Magna Charter

      Jun 8, 2023

      Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex Seasick Cyril, my best mate, is one of the few people I know who can afford proper holidays – by which I mea

      3 min read

    • Article

      Press-ganged!

      Jun 13, 2019

      Press-ganged!
      3 min read

    • Article

      From The Archives

      Apr 21, 2022

      From The Archives
      4 min read

    • Article

      She Scribes

      Oct 4, 2020

      She Scribes
      14 min read

    • Article

      A Driftwood's Tale

      Jul 1, 2019

      A Driftwood's Tale
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for 1809 Ben Brown On the Beach

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      1809 Ben Brown On the Beach - William Bertram

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1