In Ship and Prison: A Story of Five Years in the Continental Navy with Captain Samuel Tucker

In the dying days of the American Revolution, a young man finds his destiny on the decks of warships bristling with cannon. After losing his mother, Arthur Dunn seeks out Captain Samuel Tucker, a legendary figure of the Continental Navy and friend to his late father. But fate strands him instead under the command of Captain Weston, a tyrant whose cruelty turns the sea itself into a prison. Dunn must navigate not only storms and British warships but the daily brutality of a man who rules through fear. What follows is a tale of defiance and unlikely brotherhood. When Dunn finally stands against injustice, the consequences cast him into a British dungeon alongside the very captain he once sought. Five years of war, captivity, and endurance await. Chipman, writing in 1908 but drawing on firsthand accounts of Revolutionary-era naval life, delivers an adventure with genuine grit. This is historical fiction that smells of tar and gunpowder, that makes you feel the cramped quarters and the terror of battle and the strange bonds men form when death is a daily companion. For readers who want their history visceral and their adventures grounded in real human cost.