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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2014
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • A narration of a young Royal Navy officer's naval career at sea a few centuries ago. His adventures in this book span the ending months of the American War of Independence and the subsequent British entry into the early period of the new war ravaging...



  • In the early Peninsular Period of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain John Phillips of the frigate HMS Resolve has captured an enemy privateer off the coast of Portugal. Having already sent those of his crew capable of navigating back with previous prizes, ...



  • With the completion of his previous mission, political considerations make it desirable that Timothy Phillips remain away from Britain. Accordingly, he is promoted to Post Captain, given a new ship and sent to deliver an envoy to Simon Bolivar in the...



  • HMS Courageous, an eighteen pounder, 36 gun frigate, would soon be leaving Portsmouth for duty with the Channel Fleet. Ostensibly, she has come in to port to take aboard some experimental 36 pounder carronades, but the main reason was to determine ho...



  • Captain Timothy Phillips, back from America has returned to his home for some much needed rest. While there, a young woman he meets at a dance, develops an unwanted attraction for him. Spurned, she incites a young officer to challenge him to a duel. ...



  • A veteran of a previous war becomes caught up in a new one as storm clouds gather over the Pacific. When war is thrust upon him, our veteran finds himself involuntarily inducted into the US Marine Corps, involved in the bloody fighting on Guadalcanal...



  • Returning from a mission to Brazil, Captain Tim Phillips returns to London to find a former paramour waiting on the quay. Very pregnant with his child, the couple marry, but his new wife soon dies from the ravages of childbed fever. The war has ended...



  • In the preceding book, 'A Road to St. Lo', Will Harding fought his way across France. Now he finds himself near the border of Hitler's Germany. In early 1945, Harding and his men must increase their efforts to penetrate the enemy bastions....



  • A Royal Navy Midshipman of the late eighteenth century has been prematurely commissioned as Lieutenant by the efforts of his father, a prominent member of the House of Lords. Further political machinations have secured a command for this new officer....






  • A young Royal Navy officer assumes command of a captured enemy corvette Rated now as a sloop-of-war, his ship is assigned to the Channel Fleet, engaged in blockading the Atlantic coast of France. Later, Captain Mullins and his ship are sent to the Me...







  • Captain Mullins, commanding HMS Vigilant, has been sent to the eastern Mediterranean to discover what Bonaparte's naval forces have been doing there. Finding French troops are being landed on some Aegean islands, Mullins does what he must to put a st...





  • Captain Charles Mullins, RN is charged with investigating a newly appointed captain who is reported to have driven his seamen into a near state of mutiny. Later, reports come in from espionage sources that A French officer has plans to invade Ireland...



  • When a senior captain is injured, Captain Charles Mullins is given temporary command of HMS Centaur. After Moorish pirates take an East India Company ship, Centaur sails to North Africa to rescue ship, passengers and crew. Later Captain takes his shi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Testrake has published 16 books.

Richard Testrake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, HMS Centaur, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Richard Testrake, On the King's Sea Service, was published in December 2014.

No. Richard Testrake does not write books in series.