John Conroy Hutcheson
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John Conroy Hutcheson was a British
author
of novel
s and short stories
about life aboard ship
s at sea.
Hutcheson was born in Jersey
, Channel Islands
, in 1840, and died in Portsea Island
, in late 1896 or early 1897.
Some of his works with a nautical theme include:
Other works include:
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author
Author
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of novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
s and short stories
Short Stories
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about life aboard ship
Ship
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s at sea.
Hutcheson was born in Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
, Channel Islands
Channel Islands
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, in 1840, and died in Portsea Island
Portsea Island
Portsea Island is a small, flat and low lying island just off the south coast of England. The island is totally within, and contains a large proportion of, the city of Portsmouth. It has the third-largest population of any island in the British Isles, after the mainlands of Great Britain and...
, in late 1896 or early 1897.
Some of his works with a nautical theme include:
- Picked Up at Sea; or, the Gold Miners of Minturne Creek. And other stories, etc. (1884, Blackie & Son: London)
- On Board the “Esmeralda”; or, Martin Leigh’s log. A sea story ... (1885, Cassell & Co.: London)
- The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; or, Castaway on Kerguelen Land (1885, Blackie & Son, London)
- The Penang Pirate and the Lost Pinnace. (1885, Blackie & Son: London)
- Fritz and Eric; or the brother Crusoes ... (1886, Hodder & Stoughton: London)
- Tom Finch’s monkey and how he dined with the Admiral, and other yarns, etc. (1886, Blackie & Son: London). Includes "Our Scratch Eleven".
- The White Squall: a Story of the Sargasso Sea (1887 and 1893, Blackie & Son, London)
- Bob Strong’s Holidays; or, Adrift in the Channel, etc. (1897, Jarrold & Sons, London)
- Afloat at Last. A sailor boy’s log of his life at sea, etc. (1890, Blackie & Son, London)
- The Ghost Ship (1903: Ward Lock & CoWard Lock & CoWard Lock & Co was a publishing house in the United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion Publishing Group.-History:...
., Ltd, London) - The Island Treasure, also known as The Black Man’s Ghost (1889, Ward Lock & Co. Ltd, London)
- Young Tom Bowling
Other works include:
- Teddy: the story of a “Little Pickle” ... (1887, Blackie & Son: London)
- She and I. - A love story: a life history. Volume one. (1873, London, Guildford)
- She and I. - A love story: a life history. Volume two. (1873, London, Guildford)