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====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 told through the eyes of a very young sailor.
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200967 ''The Scarlet Stripe - being the adventures of a naval surgeon''] by 1932 Taffrail (Captain Henry Taprell Dorling R N) 1932 fadedpage.com, a Canadian website with many online books. A transcription. Also available [https://archive.org/details/scarletstripe0000taff/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow, 1953 edition]. An adventure story. Includes piracies of coasting steamers in the China Seas, in line with actual events. He was also the author of the novel ''Pirates'' published 1929, a story of the operations of the pirates in the Canton delta and of the duties of the British gunboats involved, which is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000969387 . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Taprell_Dorling H. Taprell Dorling] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat.
: Note, this appears to be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
