''Midshipman Bolitho'' - by Alexander Kent - Read by Michael Jayston

In 1772, sixteen-year-old British midshipman Richard Bolitho undergoes a severe initiation into the game of seamanship, intercepts and destroys a band of vicious foes, and becomes involved with smugglers. Alexander Kent (real name Doulglas Edward Reeman) wrote the famous Bolitho series and other nautical adventure thrillers or war stories.