Author:Ralph Delahaye Paine

Ralph Delahaye Paine
(1871–1925)

Ralph Delahaye Paine

Works

(partial list)

• J. Archibald McKackney (Collector of Whiskers) (1907) illus. Wallace Morgan
• The Praying Skipper and Other Stories (1906) illus. J. C. Leyendecker, W. J. Aylward & Walter Appleton Clark

1. The Praying Skipper
2. A Victory Unforeseen
3. Corporal Sweeney, Deserter
4. The Last Pilot Schooner (also in McClure's Magazine, Mar 1906)
5. The Jade Teapot
6. Captain Arendt's Choice (also in Scribner's Magazine, Dec 1905)
7. Superman Brainard's "Day Off"

• The Steam-Shovel Man (1913) illus B. J. Rosenmeyer
• The Fighting Fleets: Five months of active service (1918) non-fiction (transcription project)
• Lost Ships and Lonely Seas (1921) (non-fiction) illus George Avison (transcription project)

1. The Singular Fate of the Brig Polly
2. How the Schooner Exertion Fell among Thieves
3. The Tragedy of the Frigate Medusa
4. The Wreck of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman
5. The Adventures of David Woodard, Chief Mate
6. Captain Paddock on the Coast of Barbary
7. Four Thousand Miles in an Open Boat
8. The Frigates That Vanished in the South Seas
9. When H. M. S. Phoenix Drove Ashore
10. The Roaring Days of Piracy
11. The Loss of the Wager Man-of-War
12. The Cruise of the Wager's Long-Boat
13. The Grim Tale of the Nottingham Galley
14. The Storm-Swept Fleet of Admiral Graves
15. The Brisk Yarn of the Speedwell Privateer
16. Luckless Seamen Long in Exile
17. The Noble King of the Pelew Islands

• The Adventures of Captain O'Shea (1913) IA
• Blackbeard—Buccaneer (1922) illus. Frank E. Schoonover IA; PG

• The Story of Martin Coe (1906)
• The Stroke Oar (1908)
• College Years (1909) IA
• The Head Coach (1910) IA
• The Fugitive Freshman (1910) IA
• Sandy Sawyer, Sophomore (1911)
• The Wrecking Master (1911)
• A Cadet of the Black Star Line (1912) IA
• The Dragon and the Cross (1912)
• Campus Days (1912)
• The Judgments of the Sea (1912)
• The Wall Between (1914)
• The Twisted Skein (1915)
• The Long Road Home (1916)
• Sons of Eli (1917) IA
• The Call of the Off-Shore Wind (1918)
• First Down, Kentucky! (1921)
• Comrades of the Rolling Ocean (1923)
• Privateers of '76 (1923)

Non-fiction

• The Romance of an Old-Time Ship Master (1907) IA
• The Greater America (1907, revised 2017) IA
• The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem (1909) IA
• The Book of Buried Treasure ^[1] (1911) IA; PG
• American Destroyers in the War Zone (1918)
• The Fight for a Free Sea, a Chronicle of the War of 1812 (1918) [#Chronicles of America] PG; IA
• The Old Merchant Marine, a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors (1919) [# Chronicles of America] PG; IA
• Frigate and Clipper (1919) IA
• Ships Across the Sea: Stories of the American navy in the great war (1920) IA
• The Corsair in the War Zone (1920) IA
• The Public School Problem in New Hampshire (1920)
• Roads of Adventure (1922) (autobiographical) (sl. in Popular magazine (1921-22) as Bright Roads of Adventure IA

Works from magazines

• "A Victory Unforeseen," (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Jul 1905
• "Captain Arendt's Choice," (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Dec 1905 (Also in The Praying Skipper, 1906)
• "Marion's Mid-ocean Secret" (ss) St. Nicholas Feb 1906
• "The Coward of the Eleven" (ss)St. Nicholas Mar 1906
• "A Case of Professionalism," (ss) The Popular Magazine, Dec 1908
• "Sealed Orders" (1910 Feb, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "His Mother's Doughnuts" (1911 Dec 01, Popular) (ss)
• "The King and Captain O'Shea," (nva) in The Popular Magazine, Jul 1913 (Also in The Adventures of Captain Shea, 1913)
• "As in His Youth" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1914
• "His Code of Honor," (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Jun 1916
• "Recalled," (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1918
• "Mrs. Tredick's Husband," (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Mar 1920
• "Doubloons" (nv) Sea Stories Magazine, 03 Jan 1923

Non-fiction

• "The Spirit of School and College Sport," The Century Magazine, Nov 1905
• "The Water-side of Antwerp," Scribner's Magazine, Sep 1911
• "Hamburg and Its Harbor," Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1911
• "The Port of London River," Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1911
• "Old Seaports Awakened", Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1916

1. Full title: The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day