The very first classic naval fiction novel by Capt. Frederick Marryat Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early nineteenth-century British Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, braving hurricanes at sea, or scrambling aboard a French privateer with cutlass bared, Mildmay and his adventures live on Marryat completed his first novel, said to be partly autobiographical,...