"Cat is finally living a life of luxury--and is so bored she's going out of her mind. But then she and her friends are kidnapped and forced to work on a ship bound for the New World. With a mystery to solve and survival at stake, Cat must use her wits to save herself and her friends."@en
"In this fourth adventure Cat Royal becomes an unlikely recruit in the British Navy, takes passage to America and unravels a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom."@en
"While staying at the seaside, Catherine "Cat" Royal and her friends are captured and pressed into service in the British Navy and Cat, once again disguised as a boy, travels to the New World with survival her only goal. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary."
"In this fourth volume from Cat Royal ... In which Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for the British Navy, takes passage to America and unravels a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. From the grand Assembly Rooms of Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, Cat finds she is for once quite out of her depth."
"As an orphan brought up in the attic room of a theatre I could not have imagined leaving London, let alone Europe. But now I must take to the high seas to help a dear friend in danger! Surrounded by drunken sailors, brawling boxers and the lash of the captains's whip, it will take all of my wits to gain my sea legs on the HMS Courage."

Cat o'nine tails : cat at sea