Gaslight's W. Clark Russell page short stories & articles by W. Clark Russell (1844-1911) Bibliography by John Addy

  

"Follies of the Wise" (May 1875) Temple Bar, vol. 44 p.85-101 [not sea-related] "How He Was Cured" (Dec 1875) Temple Bar, vol. 45 p.500-515 [not sea-related]   My Watch Below (1882) CONTENTS: Jack in the Forecastle A Trip in a Collier The Wreck of the "Indian Chief" On a Lightship In the North Sea, on a Smack A Hovelling Job A Terrible Voyage The Great Gale of January, 1881 A Dream of Trafalger Among the Savages Famine on Shipboard A Struggle for Life Man Overboard Battened Down The Flying Dutchman A Sailor's Yarn A Deadly Cargo A Noble Band On a Cattle Ship A Festive Retrospect A Pre'ntive's Yarn A Negro's Narrative The Middy's Yarn A Foreign Emigrant Ship In a Cyclone A Mutiny at Sea A Quiet Yarn A Tobacco Parliament A Passenger's Story Water-Logged 'Long Shoremen [a different story with the same title — but ''Longshoremen' — appeared in The Romance of Jenny Harlow and Sketches of Maritime Life (1889)] A Towing Job An Anchor Watch A Runaway Ship The Skipper's Story On the Death of Richard Dana, January, 1882   Round the Galley Fire (1883) [all articles reprinted from the Daily Telegraph] CONTENTS: A Dance at Sea Going Aloft A Trick at the Wheel The Bailiff at Sea Off the Horn A Strange Chase A Salvage Job A Channel Incident Loss of a Smack's Crew Fire at Sea Sea-Sickness A Log Extract In an Open Boat Waiting for a Ship Skipper's Wives at Sea Sea Songs An Hour's Row The Pleasures of Yachting A Drunken Ship A Sailor's Club The Perils of Humanity Smack Apprentices Gravesend A Chat with a Fisherman A Fourpenny Voyage Poor Jack [this is a different story to 'Poor Jack!' published in the English Illustrated Magazine vol. XVI Oct 1896-March 1897 p.3-9) On the Goodwins The Strangers' Home   On the Fo'k'sle Head (1884) CONTENTS: Sea-Yarns Jack's View of it The Romance of the Deep Sea-Terms Ashore Jack's Bairns An Ocean Waif The Last Man A Picture A Sailor's Wedding A Turnpike Sailor Jack Ashore Sailors' Hardships A Salt-Water Cure The "Victory" Ocean Messages Types of 'Long-Shoremen Seafaring Delights Diving A Growler An Old Smuggler From a Top Window Derelicts A Bewitched Ship The Dangers of the Sea Jack's Ways and Means A Sailor's Friend My Lord's Adventure   "Sea Stories" (September 1884) The Contemporary Review, vol. 46 p.343-63   In the Middle Watch (1885) CONTENTS: Come, All You Lively Hearties! A Yatchsman's Yarn Tugs A Veteran Lights at Sea Captain Weevil's Yarn [see also "Weevil's Lecture" in The Mystery of the "Ocean Star" (1887)] Vanished Types A Ship's Wheel Sailors' Food (a different story of the same title is included in The Romance of Jenny Harlow and Sketches of Maritime life (1889)] Deal Puntmen The Nautical Drama "Coopering" A Twister A Chat with a Coxswain Alarms at Sea A Close Shave Figure-Heads Slaving in 1884 Sharks and Shadows Sea Stories [first published in The Contemporary Review, (1884)] The Direst of all Sea Perils Emigrants' Rations Ships' Names Fighting Merchant Seamen Endurance at Sea A Wild Night   "The Shipping Commission Viewed from the Forecastle" (March 1885) The Contemporary Review, vol. 47 p.353-371 [also published in 1885 by Sampson, Low & Co., London under the title "A Forecastle View of the Shipping Commission"] "Sea Phrases" (December 1886) The Contemporary Review, vol. 50 p.809-820 "Mysterious Disappearances" (February 1887) Longman's Magazine, vol. 9 p.365-377 "The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star'" (August 1887) Longman's Magazine vol. 10 p.379-391   A Book for the Hammock (1887) CONTENTS: A Nautical Lament Superstitions of the Sea Old Sea Ordnance The Honour of the Flag [a different story of the same title appeared in the short story collection The Honour of the Flag (1895)] The Naval Officer's Spirit Women as Sailors Fighting Smugglers Sea Phrases [first published in Longman's Magazine (1887)] Then and Now Costly Shipwrecks Curiosities of Disasters at Sea Infernal Machines Queer Fish Strange Craft Mysterious Disappearances [first published in Longman's Magazine (1887)] Rich Captures Peculiarities of Rig How the Old Navigators Managed Plates and Rivets French Smacksmen Old Sea Customs Who is Vanderdecken?   "The Old Naval Song" (June 1888) Longman's Magazine, vol. 12 p.180-191 [same story as "The Old Naval Sea-Song" collected in The Mystery of the "Ocean Star" (1888)] "Pictures at Sea" (1888) Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 57, November 1887-April 1888 p.168-175 "The Romance of Jenny Harlow" (1888) The English Illustrated Magazine, vol. 6, 1888-9   The Mystery of the "Ocean Star": A Collection of Maritime Sketches (1888) CONTENTS: The Mystery of the "Ocean Star" [first published in Longman's Magazine (1887)] The Extraordinary Adventure of a Chief Mate Thirst! An Ocean Incident Pictures at Sea (first published in Macmillan's Magazine 1888) Foul of a Waterspout Hazardous Voyages Forecastle Traits The Old Sea Dog Marine Punishments Calms and Seas 'Longshoreman's Yarns The British Sailor Lifeboats and Their Crews Weevil's Lecture [see also "Captain Weevil's Yarn" in On the Fo'k'sle Head] Old Ships Seaside Effects An Ocean Mystery The Old Naval Sea-Song [first published as "The Old Naval Song" in Longman's Magazine (1888)] An Old Shipwright Can These Dry Bones Live? "That There Little Tommy" A Luminous Sailor Spanish Armada [first published as a commemorative paper, Daily Telegraph (June, 1888)]   "Jeremy York. A Story of Old Deal" (1889) Chamber's Journal   The Romance of Jenny Harlow and Sketches of Maritime Life (1889)] CONTENTS: The Romance of Jenny Harlow [serialised in The English Illustrated Magazine, vol. 6 (1888-9)] Jeremy York [serialised in Chamber's Journal (1889) — extended title "A Story of Old Deal"] Jim's Reformation A Hail From Aloft Old Jupiter A Strange Bellman Lamed on the Godwins Jem Burton's Adventure A Smuggler's Lair 'Longshoremen [a story of the same title — but: '''Long Shoremen" — appears in My Watch Below (1885)] Sailors' Pleasures Jack According to Landsmen Sailors' Stories The Sailor's Philosophy Sailors' Rights and Wrongs Sailors' Perils Sailors' Food [a different story of the same title is included in In the Middle Watch (1885)] Sailors' Superstitions Sailors' Songs Poetic Aspects of Sea-Life The Shipmaster's Responsibilities Vanished Forms of the Sea-Life Memorable Experiences   "La Mulette. Anno 1814" (1889) The English Illustrated Magazine Oct 1889-Sept 1890 p.255-278 [later included as a chapter in "Master Rockafellar's Voyage" (1891)] "My Favorite Novelist and His Best Book" (1889) Munsey's Magazine "Captain Jones of the 'Rose'" (May 1891) The Strand Magazine, vol. I issue 5 p.491-500 "A Memorable Swim" (March 14 1891) Black and White, Vol. I P.182-186 "Miss Parson's Adventure" (May 23 1891) Black and White Vol. I p.518-521 "Three in Charge" (Oct 1891) The Strand Magazine, vol. II issue 10 p.372-382 "A Claim for American literature" (February 1892) North American Review, New York "A Nightmare of the Doldrums [A terrible Story of the Sea, only to be read by people of strong nerves]" (Aug 1892) The Strand Magazine, vol. IV issue 20 p.189-198 "My First Book — The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor'" (August 1892) The Idler Magazine, vol. II August 1892 - January 1893 p.10-20 [part of a series where authors, including Conan Doyle, were asked to tell of their early literary work]   The British Seas [by W. Clark Russell and other writers] (1892) CONTENTS WHICH WERE BY RUSSELL: The Downs (parts I and II) Down Channel (parts III and IV) The North Sea (parts X and XI)   "The Sequel" (February 25, 1893) Black and White, Vol. V January – June 1893 p.232-236 "The Life of the Merchant Sailor" (July 1893) Scribner's Magazine, vol. XIV July 1893-December 1893 p.2-19 "The Hinda Mystery" (October 1893) The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 1 no. 6 p. 832-847 "The Phantom Death" (1893) The Idler, vol. IV August 1893 - January 1894 p. 220-238 "A Memory of the Pacific" (1893) Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual "The Major's Commission" (Feb 1893) The Strand Magazine, vol. V issue 26 p.138-147 "Try For Her in Fifty" (1894) Good Words, p.55-64 "'So Unnecessary!'" (Sept 1894) The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. IV Sept-Dec 1894 p.4-18 "Broker's Bay" (1894) The Idler, vol. VI August 1894-January 1895 p.122-138 "The Chiliman Tragedy" (1894) Harper's Weekly "The Lazarette of the Huntress" (1894) The Idler, vol. V Feb-Jul 1894 "Drove Back" (1895) The Idler vol. VI August 1894-January 1895 p.686-701   The Phantom Death and Other Stories (1895) CONTENTS: The Phantom Death [first published in The Idler, vol. IV August 1893-January 1894 p.220-238] Broker's Bay [first published in The Idler, 1894-5 vol. VI] The Lazarette of the Huntress [first published in The Idler, vol. V Feb-Jul 1894] A Memory of the Pacific [first published in Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual (1893)] So Unnecessary! [first published in The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. IV Sept-Dec 1894 p.4-18] The Major's Commission [first published in The Strand Magazine, vol. V issue 26 1893] A Nightmare of the Doldrums [first published in The Strand Magazine, Aug 1892 vol. VI issue 20] Try Her for Fifty [first published in Good Words (1894)] The Chiliman Tragedy [first published in Harper's Weekly (1894)] The Secret of the Dead Mate The Transport Palestine   The Honour of the Flag (1895) CONTENTS: The Honour of the Flag. A Thames Tragedy [a different story of the same title appeared in the short story collection A Book for the Hammock (1887)] Cornered! A Midnight Visitor Plums from a Sailor's Duff The Strange Adventures of a South Seaman The Adventures of Three Sailors. Told by Daniel Small, Only Mate The Strange Tragedy of the "White Star" The Ship Seen on the Ice   "That There Mason" (1896) The Idler, vol. VIII Aug 1895-Jan 1896 [also published in 1896 in Tales of Our Coast by S. R. Crockett, Harold Frederic, Gilbert Parker, W. Clark Russell and 'Q', Chatto & Windus, London] "Poor Jack!" (October 1896) The English Illustrated Magazine, vol. XVI Oct 1896-March 1897 p.3-9 "Vendetta Marina" (1896) The Idler, vol. IX Feb-July 1896 "Christmas Day at Sea" (1899) The Temple Magazine, vol. IV Oct 1899-Sept 1900, p.168-170 "Rosy Bindon's Adventure" (1912) in Stories of the Sea [by G. Manville Fenn, Gordon Stables, D.H. Parry and Clark Russell]