The Congo Rovers
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- First published
- 1886
- Pages
- 254Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 6 of 10
A little about the story
Young Dick is thrilled to get his first naval uniform, and even more thrilled when he is posted to a ship of the West Africa Squadron, which hunted slave ships off the African coast. Up the Congo he meets a naturalist and his daughter, and a world of danger.
Harry Collingwood was a master of the sea story, and this one is packed with chases, captures and fights against the slave traders.
Things You May Not Know About The Congo Rovers
- Subtitled A Story of the Slave Squadron.
- The Royal Navy's anti-slavery patrols captured some 1,600 slave ships between 1808 and 1860.
- Harry Collingwood was the pen name of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster, a civil engineer and keen sailor.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
