Yankee Privateer

Title attributed to Andre Norton

Yankee Privateer

Bibliography ~

¯ (1955) * Published by World, HC, # HC155, LCCN 55005281, $3.00, 300pg ~ illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh {Gray Cloth Boards}

Synopsis ~

Fitzhugh Lyon, son of Hugh Lyon second son of the Earl of Starr (the first son being titled Farstarr). His adventures during the American Revolution. Young Fitz is pressed into service as a Marine on a Yankee Privateer. Through several sea battles, and imprisonment in England. Even meeting his grandfather, Lord Starr. How he eventually escapes, and joins back with his crew forms this interesting Historical adventure.

From the Dust Jacket –

Andre Norton, one of America’s best loved and ever-popular writers of adventure tales, presents another exciting story of men and deeds on the high seas – a thrilling chapter in America’s fierce struggle for independence, when boldness and courage reaped bounties for the Yankee privateers and wreaked havoc for the British.

Here is the story of a young nation, filled with the pride of freedom, bringing its war to the very shores of the mother country. This is also the story of Fitzhugh Lyon, young American scion of a powerful English family, who finds himself shanghaied aboard the Retaliation, and is suddenly thrust into the exciting life of a privateersman; of Captain Crofts, dauntless, courageous master of his ship, sailing fearlessly into the lion’s mouth; of Watts, the ship’s surgeon, a man of wit and culture among a rough-and-tumble crew; of Lieutenant Ninnes, whose bitter hatred of Fitz make them deadly enemies.

How they crossed the wartime sea, fought for their lives, were captured by the British, and finally engineered a bold and clever escape from Plymouth’s notorious Old Mill Prison make for top flight entertainment.

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