Harry Collingwood was the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (23 May 1843 – 10 June 1922), a British civil engineer and novelist who wrote over 40 boys' adventure books, almost all of them in a nautical setting. - Wikipedia

It was a little after seven o’clock on June 19 in the year of Our Lord 1577, and business was practically over for the day. The taverns and alehouses were, of course, still open, and would so remain for three or four hours to come, for the evening was then, as it is now, their most busy time; but nearly all the shops in Fore Street of the good town of Devonport were closed, one of the few exceptions being that of Master John Summers, “Apothecary,...

Harry Collingwood was the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (23 May 1843 – 10 June 1922),a British civil engine er and novelist who wrote over 40 boys' adventure books, almost all of them in a nautical setting. -from Wikipedia

A fantastic adventure novel set on the high seas, written by British civil engineer and author of nautical fiction William Lancaster, under his pseudonym Harry Collingwood.

This is a Project Guttenberg edition released in 2007. *A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story* by Harry Collingwood, illustrated by D.L. Mays, follows the daring adventures of a young British midshipman serving in the Royal Navy's anti-slavery patrols off West Africa. Set during the 19th century, the novel vividly depicts battles with slave ships, treacherous voyages, and encounters with dangerous foes. Through courage, honor, and loyalty,...