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The Dark Frigate

Charles Boardman Hawes

Book Overview: 

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.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .He rubbed his sore breast where the knife had pricked him, and gulped three or four times. "Ah-h-h!" he breathed. "God be praised, he's gone!" He made the sign of the cross, then cast a sharp glance at Phil to see if he had noticed. "God be praised, he's gone! He hath a cruel humour. He will kill for a word, when the mood is on him. I thought I was a dead man. Ah-h-h!"

The colour returned to his round face and the sly, crafty look returned to his eyes. "We'll find him at Bideford, though, and all will go well again. He'll kill for a word—nay, for a thought! But he never bears a grudge—against a friend. We'll lie tonight, my lad, with a roof over our heads, and by dawn we'll take the road."

CHAPTER IV
THE GIRL AT THE INN

As they came at nightfall to the inn whither Martin had been determined they should find their way, a coach drawn by two horses clattered down the village street and drew up at the inn gate before them. There . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Several years ago, when I decided to read all of the John Newbery Medal Winners, this was one of the books I was dreading - published in 1923, some of those early winners are slow going. This one, about a boat. How more slow-going can you get?

I am surprised and happy to say that I couldn't put it do

I don’t know what to make of this book. I didn’t dislike it; I didn’t like it; I’m not neutral about it either. I’m just unsettled. I can’t think of any other way to say it. So here are my thoughts…
The style and vocabulary are wonderful. They give you a real feel for the times and the nautical set

As of March 27, 2008, I have now read (and collected data from) something like seventy of the eighty-eight winners of the Newbery Medal. When I set out to read them all, I dreaded the older books, for it was my impression that the early honorees were "good for you" books, and not necessarily good li

I believe the correct phrase is "a rollicking good yarn."

Ar! Want to read a salty sea tale? Are you over 30? Then dig this one up!

Why won't children read this book? Is it boring?
No. There is action and adventure from page one.

Is it too violent?
I don't think so. If you're old enough to follow it, then you're old enough for the violence. It is less disturbi

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