The Dreadnought Boys on a Submarine by Captain Wilbur Lawton
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February 2025
Originally published 1911
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
ePublished by
February 2025
Originally published 1911
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
This novel, written for young adults, is the third 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 third in the series follows the cousins on their assignment to an experimental submarine being considered for purchase by the U. S. Navy. Skulduggerous agents of a foreign nation do their best to scuttle the purchase so they can purchase the submarine for the foreign power instead, but these agents of evil are stymied at every turn by the two “Dreadnought Boys.”
“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.
The storyline of this third in the series follows the cousins on their assignment to an experimental submarine being considered for purchase by the U. S. Navy. Skulduggerous agents of a foreign nation do their best to scuttle the purchase so they can purchase the submarine for the foreign power instead, but these agents of evil are stymied at every turn by the two “Dreadnought Boys.”
“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.