The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. Westerman

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.html.images 444 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.epub3.images 895 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.epub.images 902 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.epub.noimages 215 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.kf8.images 1.0 MB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.kindle.images 1011 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50050.txt.utf-8 409 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50050/pg50050-h.zip 838 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis), 1876-1959
Illustrator Wigfull, W. Edward, 1875-1944
Title The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland
Note Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits Produced by R.G.P.M. van Giesen. Thank you, Iain Somerville!
Summary "The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland" by Percy F. Westerman is an adventure novel likely written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows two young sailors, Sub-Lieutenant Jack Hamerton and his American friend Oswald Detroit, as they embark on a cruise to Kiel on their yacht, the "Diomeda". However, their voyage takes an unexpected turn when they accidentally enter a prohibited naval area near the fortified island of Heligoland, leading to their arrest by German authorities on suspicion of espionage. The opening of the story introduces readers to the main characters aboard their yacht, setting the stage for their adventure. As they navigate foggy waters, they rescue a sailor who has fallen overboard from a German destroyer, illustrating their bravery and quick thinking. However, their luck quickly changes as they inadvertently find themselves tangled in a web of international intrigue when they are arrested by German naval officers. The narrative hints at the escalating tension of their predicament, with a multitude of potential consequences and encounters with naval warfare that lie ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject War stories
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Helgoland (Germany) -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 50050
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jul 23, 2016
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 58 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!