"United States" . . "1775 - 1783" . . . . "Lieutenant Christopher : a novel of the sea" . "History" . "Fiction" . "A young privateer from Annapolis has a series of adventures on the Delaware and the Chesapeake Bays, learns how to build square-rigged warships in a Philadelphia shipyard, joins the Continental Navy serving under Commodore John Paul Jones, and participates in the famous raid on Whitehaven." . . . "War stories" . . . . "Sea stories" . . .