The Dreadnought Boys’ World Cruise by Captain Wilbur Lawton
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ePublished by
January 2026
Originally published 1913
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
ePublished by
January 2026
Originally published 1913
Fiction, young adult, Boys of World War I series
Author: Captain Wilbur Lawton
This novel, written for young adults, is the fifth of six describing the adventures of Ned Strong and Herc Taylor, two rural farm boys, cousins, who decide to leave the farm owned by their parsimonious grandfather who raised them and run off to join the U. S. Navy in the period shortly before the United States decided to enter World War I (1914–1918), known as the “Great War.”
The storyline of this fifth in the series follows the cousins on a round-the-world cruise aboard the battleship Manhattan, the flagship of an American fleet determined to showcase to a world on the brink of world war the growing might of the United States Navy. In addition to some storm trouble in the Pacific, the boys manage to get into a number of humorous predicaments during their shore leaves in various foreign locales.
“Captain Wilbur Lawton” is a pen name for John Henry Goldfrap (1879–1917), an English-born journalist and author of boys’ books who always wrote under pseudonyms.
The storyline of this fifth in the series follows the cousins on a round-the-world cruise aboard the battleship Manhattan, the flagship of an American fleet determined to showcase to a world on the brink of world war the growing might of the United States Navy. In addition to some storm trouble in the Pacific, the boys manage to get into a number of humorous predicaments during their shore leaves in various foreign locales.
“Captain Wilbur Lawton” is a pen name for John Henry Goldfrap (1879–1917), an English-born journalist and author of boys’ books who always wrote under pseudonyms.