The Sailor Hero by F. C. Armstrong
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ePublished by
March 2025
Originally published 1861
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: F. C. Armstrong
ePublished by
March 2025
Originally published 1861
Fiction, Age of Sail
Author: F. C. Armstrong
The Sailor Hero; or, The Frigate and the Lugger is an epic-length, 142,000-plus-word novel of romance and military adventure that chronicles the rise from humble origins of an orphan boy from midshipman in the British Navy during the Anglo-French wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to commander of his own ship-of-war and recognized heir to an honorary title and large fortune.
The book was originally published in three volumes as The Frigate and the Lugger: A Nautical Romance in the year 1861, and then was re-published as The Sailor Hero; or, The Frigate and the Lugger in 1863. This digital version uses the cover and title of the 1863 edition but otherwise adheres strictly to the original three-volume 1861 edition.
The author of the 1861 edition is listed as F. C. Armstrong, the 1863 edition as Captain F. C. Armstrong, both of which refer to Francis Claudius Armstrong (1802–1872), a man about which little is known except that he was born in the Isle of Man, possibly served as a captain in the Sardinian Navy, and later in life lived in Kidwelly, Wales.
The book was originally published in three volumes as The Frigate and the Lugger: A Nautical Romance in the year 1861, and then was re-published as The Sailor Hero; or, The Frigate and the Lugger in 1863. This digital version uses the cover and title of the 1863 edition but otherwise adheres strictly to the original three-volume 1861 edition.
The author of the 1861 edition is listed as F. C. Armstrong, the 1863 edition as Captain F. C. Armstrong, both of which refer to Francis Claudius Armstrong (1802–1872), a man about which little is known except that he was born in the Isle of Man, possibly served as a captain in the Sardinian Navy, and later in life lived in Kidwelly, Wales.