The naval service of the Honourable East India Company, popularly known as the Bombay Marine, knew its share of adventure; none more than Captain Percival Merewether and the men of his ship Rapid.
From Mauritius to Teheran, from the Bay of Bengal towards Australia—weathering fierce naval battles, skirmishes with pirate fleets, and sometimes equally hazardous engagements ashore—the seas were packed with the stuff that goes to make incident. And action it was that really sparked Merewether and his men in a rousing tale that will give much pleasure to those who like a rattling good yarn.
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Ellis K. Meacham (1913-1998) was a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve who served as a gunnery officer in the Pacific during the Second World War. He was an attorney in Tennessee from 1937 until 1972, when he became a judge in the Chattanooga Municipal Court. He won the Friends of American Writers Major Award in Fiction in 1969 for The East Indiaman.
Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.