Newsflash

Following the death of the owner, Fireship Press LLC, (publishers of the first five Fighting Sail books), will close at the end of August. These titles are currently being updated and revised before moving to Old Salt Press. His Majesty’s Ship should reappear shortly, and it is hoped the entire series will be under the OSP banner by the end of 2024.

Narrow Seas

1942, and America has entered the war against Germany yet, for those manning the powerful, but vulnerable, gunboats of Britain’s Coastal Forces, victory remains a long way over the horizon.

Though faster than most conventional warships, the light wooden craft can be destroyed by a single, well-placed shell. Their nighttime mid-Channel meetings with the German Kriegsmarine are brisk and brutal, with success often measured by whoever stays afloat, although daytime brings a more normal life for their volunteer crews.

These are men new to the sea, and new to a world filled with extreme danger and ruthless contrasts. A world where close associations soon form and are quickly relied upon. A world where lives are made, changed and, too often, lost on the savage waters of the Narrow Seas.