Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected ambition of many a youngster, and some lads there are who have realized their desire to their sorrow. The boy who has not cherished in his heart and exhibited in his actions at sometime or other during his youthful days, a love of ships and salt water, is fit for—well, he is fit for the shore, and that is the worst thing a sailor could say about him! (From the introduction, by Cyrus Townsend Brady)

Latest episodes of the podcast Sea Stories by Various

• Yarns Of The Forecastle - Cyrus Townsend Brady
• Narrative Of The Mutiny On The Bounty Part 1 from Chambers' Miscellany
• Narrative Of The Mutiny On The Bounty Part 2 from Chambers' Miscellany
• Our First Whale by Frank T. Bullen
• Going To Sea A Hundred Years Ago by R.J. Cleveland
• The Escape Of The American Frigate Part 1 by J.F. Cooper
• The Escape Of The American Frigate Part 2 by J.F. Cooper
• Among The Ice Floes by J.F. Cooper
• A Tornado At Sea by George Cupples
• My First Voyage Part 1 by R.H. Dana, Jnr.
• My First Voyage Part 2 by R.H. Dana, Jnr.
• Running Away To Sea by Daniel Defoe
• The Tempest by Charles Dickens
• A Struggle With A Devil-Fish by Victor Hugo
• The Man And The Cannon by Victor Hugo
• A Ship On Fire At Sea by Jean Ingelow
• In The Gulf Stream by Charles Kingsley
• The Loss Of The Royal George by W.H.G. Kingston
• Sailors' Yarns by Pierre Loti
• Equality At Sea by Captain Frederick Marryat
• The Club Hauling Of The Diomede by Captain Frederick Marryat
• The Chase by Herman Melville
• Rounding Cape Horn by Herman Melville
• The Merchantman And The Pirate Part 1 by Charles Reade
• The Merchantman And The Pirate Part 2 by Charles Reade
• A Gale Of Wind by W. Clark Russell
• Saved by W. Clark Russell
• The Capture Of The Cotton Ship by Michael Scott
• The Cruise Of The Coracle by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Landing On The Island by Jean Rudolf Wyss