The Dreadnought Boys aboard a Destroyer by Captain Wilbur Lawton
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July 2023
Originally published 1911
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
ePublished by
July 2023
Originally published 1911
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
This novel, written for young adults, is the second of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who raised them and run off to join the U. S. Navy in the period shortly before the United States decided to enter World War I (1914–1918), known as the “Great War.” The storyline of this second in the series follows the cousins on their first assignment aboard a destroyer. When their destroyer is assigned to monitor a revolution on a Latin American island in the Caribbean, an island which of course has American business interests to protect, the cousins find themselves enmeshed in scouting expeditions, naval battles aboard an island naval warship, and even the climactic land battle between government troops and revolutionaries.
“Captain Wilbur Lawton” is a pen name for John Henry Goldfrap (1879–1917), an English-born journalist and author of boys’ books who always wrote under pseudonyms.
“Captain Wilbur Lawton” is a pen name for John Henry Goldfrap (1879–1917), an English-born journalist and author of boys’ books who always wrote under pseudonyms.