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In seventeenth-century England, nineteen-year-old Philip Marsham's mother had died when he was young, and his ship captain father Thomas raised him on the sea. Philip would have been with his father when Thomas's ship went down and he was lost, but the son had become ill and was being nursed in London by his father's hopeful fiancée Moll Stevens. But an unfortunate accident forces him to flee London. He meets up with a couple of sailors headed for a ship at Bideford, and Philip goes with them. Along the way they stop at an inn where he meets Nell Entick and they agree that he will return to marry her. At Bideford, he signs on with the Rose of Devon, a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland. However, the ship is seized in midocean by a devious group of men plucked from a floating wreck, the Captain is murdered, and Philip is unwillingly coerced into joining these "gentlemen of fortune" or pirates on their evil activities. What will happen when they are caught and Philip is brought to trial? And will he ever see Nell Entick again?

This book won the 1924 John Newbery Medal. I admit I was a bit apprehensive about reading the book as a result of certain evaluations, but now that I have it doesn't seem to me that it was as bad as they implied. Yes, some of the women are less than virtuous, but in contrast Philip Marsham himself is a model of honesty and loyalty. He didn't come across to me generally as having "an eye towards comely women" but simply as a young man of nineteen smiling at "a comely lass" who caught his attention and whom he decided that he wanted to marry. A little bad language is found along with a lot of references to drinking alcohol, and I will grant that some of the murder descriptions are rather blunt, especially that of Will Canty. For that reason I would not recommend it for small or sensitive children, but after all it is a pirate story, and there is really nothing worse than what one would read in Treasure Island or a G. A. Henty novel. Charles Hawes's first novel was The Mutineers in 1920, though not published until 1925. He won a Newbery Honor Award in 1922 for The Great Quest, but then died shortly after the publication of The Dark Frigate, and his widow had to accept the Medal. If you are looking for a rousing seafaring adventure with bloody battles, brutal buccaneers, and a bold, spirited hero, The Dark Frigate will fill the bill.


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The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes Books Reviews

Won a Newbery but I would not recommend it for children of any age.
This is a tolerably exciting adventure story for young adults - boys, it would appear. It was first published in 1971.

The story itself is not bad, but the thing that will hang kids up these days is the archaic vocabulary - rare or extinct words involving ships, sailing, and the weather - that Hawes uses liberally throughout this book. It's not just the occasional "Avast thou!" either. I can't judge whether he's using the terms convincingly or believably I just know it's gonna slow anybody down.

And as for using this with ESL learners, you can totally forget it. It's not just the sea vocabulary, either. It's the overall writing style. Some of the book even drifts into the second person.

Here's a sample

"Of some she spoke thus in all truth; of others, though she knew it would cost her life, she craftily and stoutly lied. And at last she came to Philip Marsham, whose heart chilled when he met the sharp eyes that had looked so hard into his own in Bideford long before. "Nay, my lord, he is a handsome blade, but I never saw him ere this." Some smiled and sniggered; but the old woman shrugged, and lifted her brows, and stood before the Court, wrinkled and bent by years of wickedness. Say what you will of her sins, her courage and loyalty were worthy of a better cause." (p. 221)
My daughter loves this book!! Already finished it and on another one.
So far this book is surprisingly enjoyable, although I haven't finished reading it yet.

I'm giving the edition one star specifically because it has typesetting problems. On nearly every page, there are spaces missing between multiple words, making it difficult to parse.

For a little over a dollar maybe I shouldn't have expected it to be a high-production-quality edition were it not for the fact that this book is in the public domain (i.e. no longer under copyright) and available for free from websites that collect such works like Project Gutenberg.

It doesn't seem ethical for to sell classic ebooks that are legally available for free when there appears to be, in this case, no added value to the edition being sold. If there is some kind of added value, I would like an explanation for what thinks it is.

The moral of the story If the book that you're looking for was published a long time ago, do a web search for it before spending money on it.
Make sure you read The Great Quest, too. Both by Hawes and both really good books.
Bought this for my grandson. Started reading it. Terrific story. Will have to borrow it back to finish it. Arrived ahead of time, securely packaged, and the book was as described.
My son had a class project and it was required that the book he read be an award winner. This is one of several I purchased at the same time and it did not take him long to read it which to me means it kept his interest. He told me he liked it so in a day of computers and video games I am happy with my purchase.
In seventeenth-century England, nineteen-year-old Philip Marsham's mother had died when he was young, and his ship captain father Thomas raised him on the sea. Philip would have been with his father when Thomas's ship went down and he was lost, but the son had become ill and was being nursed in London by his father's hopeful fiancée Moll Stevens. But an unfortunate accident forces him to flee London. He meets up with a couple of sailors headed for a ship at Bideford, and Philip goes with them. Along the way they stop at an inn where he meets Nell Entick and they agree that he will return to marry her. At Bideford, he signs on with the Rose of Devon, a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland. However, the ship is seized in midocean by a devious group of men plucked from a floating wreck, the Captain is murdered, and Philip is unwillingly coerced into joining these "gentlemen of fortune" or pirates on their evil activities. What will happen when they are caught and Philip is brought to trial? And will he ever see Nell Entick again?

This book won the 1924 John Newbery Medal. I admit I was a bit apprehensive about reading the book as a result of certain evaluations, but now that I have it doesn't seem to me that it was as bad as they implied. Yes, some of the women are less than virtuous, but in contrast Philip Marsham himself is a model of honesty and loyalty. He didn't come across to me generally as having "an eye towards comely women" but simply as a young man of nineteen smiling at "a comely lass" who caught his attention and whom he decided that he wanted to marry. A little bad language is found along with a lot of references to drinking alcohol, and I will grant that some of the murder descriptions are rather blunt, especially that of Will Canty. For that reason I would not recommend it for small or sensitive children, but after all it is a pirate story, and there is really nothing worse than what one would read in Treasure Island or a G. A. Henty novel. Charles Hawes's first novel was The Mutineers in 1920, though not published until 1925. He won a Newbery Honor Award in 1922 for The Great Quest, but then died shortly after the publication of The Dark Frigate, and his widow had to accept the Medal. If you are looking for a rousing seafaring adventure with bloody battles, brutal buccaneers, and a bold, spirited hero, The Dark Frigate will fill the bill.