โ Scribed by Collingwood, Harry
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The heroes of the story are two boys from Devon, a county in the south-west of England. They set off with a view to repairing the fortunes of the family of one of them, by chasing and capturing Spanish treasure ships. Excerpt Now now, Roger, my lad; what are you thinking of? These words were addressed to a tall, fair young man of about eighteen or nineteen years of age, who was standing on Plymouth Hoe, gazing earnestly at the Sound and the evolutions of certain vessels which had just entered it round Penlee Point. The speaker was a lad of about the same age, but shorter in height, sturdier in build, and altogether more robust and healthy-looking than his companion, who belonged rather to the class of dreamers than that of workers.
Harry Collingwood is the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster. The son of a naval officer, Lancaster was educated at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Poor eye sight meant he could not pursue a career at sea and instead became a civil engineer specialising in harbour design.
He wrote prolifically, publishing more than twenty nautically themed novels.
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William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (1851-1922) was a civil engineer who specialised in seas and harbours. He wrote Juvenile Adventures under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood. His works include: The Secret of the Sands (1879), Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman During the French Revolutionary War