Tag Archives: C. Northcote Parkinson
The Mauritius Campaign: Prelude
The last novel I summarized on this blog was the C. Northcote Parkinson novel, featuring is character Richard Delancey, Dead Reckoning. The book covers about five years of Delancey’s career and involves operations in Borneo and, most significantly, against the … Continue reading
Filed under Naval Operations, Richard Delancey Novels
Kapuas River
In C. Northcote Parkinson’s Richard Delancey novel Dead Reckoning, Captain Delancey tracks a French privateer to its base on the Kapuas River in Borneo. The privateer is protected by a stockade which fortifies both sides of the river.
Filed under Age of Sail, Naval Fiction, Richard Delancey Novels
Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning fast forwards the life of C. Northcote Parkinson’s character Richard Delancey by four years picking up in late 1805. When we left Delancey in Touch and Go he was a recently made commander on the eve of the … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Naval Fiction, Richard Delancey Novels
Tetuan
The Moroccan port city of Tetuan features prominently in the plot of the C. Northcote Parkinson novel Touch and Go featuring the British naval officer Richard Delancey. Delancey, in the sloop HMS Merlin, and a merchantman it is escorting stop … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Geography
Touch and Go
Touch and Go follows the career of C. Northcote Parkinson’s naval character Richard Delancey from late 1797 through the Peace of Amiens. When we last enountered Richard Delancey, he was unemployed due to using his command, the fireship Spitfire, as … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Naval Fiction, Richard Delancey Novels
Fireship
C. Northcote Parkinson’s Richard Delancey novel, Fireship, opens in the shadow of the mutinies at Spithead and The Nore. Delancey is a lieutenant on the frigate HMS Medusa, which is just returning from Spain and bound for the dockyard at … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Naval Fiction
Devil To Pay
Devil To Pay is the second nove, chronologically, but the first in order of publication, in the Richard Delancey series by C. Northcote Parkinson. Parkinson is best known for his work in the field of public administration and is credited … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Richard Delancey Novels
The Richard Delancey Novels
Having found myself temporarily deprived of Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels and totally dissatisfied with Julian Stockwin’s Thomas Kydd novels (despite the slamming cover art by Geoff Hunt) I’ve been searching for other naval fiction to use as a focal … Continue reading
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey
As we’ll be serializing C. Northcote Parkinson’s Richard Delancey novels over the next weeks it seems appropriate to start with Delancey’s hometown. St. Peter Port, shown here with Castle Cornet in the right midground, is the capital of Guernsey. During … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Naval Fiction, Richard Delancey Novels
