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I finished C. Northcote Parkinson's first Richard Delancey novel Devil To Pay. Initially I found it quite enjoyable, but there were some implausible events at the end that spoiled it a bit. I'll try either the successive novel The Fireship (the Spithead and Nore Mutinies and the Battle of Camperdown) or Delancey's back story The Guernseyman (a Midshipman during the American Revolutionary War)
I started reading another series by Robert N. Macomber about Peter Wake, an officer in the U.S. Navy between the American Civil War and 1900.
The first novel At the Edge of Honor introduces Wake, an ex-merchant sailor commanding a sloop gunboat of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. It describes blockading activity in the Florida Keys and South-West Florida in 1863-64 as well as riverine warfare on the Peace and Caloosahatchee rivers.
Enjoyable enough that I am reading the second novel Point of Honor, where Wake has been promoted to command of a schooner.
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