Richard Armstrong

Richard Armstrong (18 June 1903 – 30 May 1986) was an English writer who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories. For one of those, Sea Change, he won the 1948 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He died in 1986.

Selected works

Adult novels The Northern Maid (1947) Passage Home (1952) - Film 1955 Sailor's Luck (1959)

Children's novels The Mystery of Obadiah (1943) Sabotage at the Forge (1946) Sea Change (1948) The Whinstone Drift (1951) Danger Rock (1955); U.S. title, Cold Hazard The Lost Ship (1956) No Time for Tankers (1959) The Lame Duck (1961) Island Odyssey (1963) The Secret Sea (1966) The Mutineers (1968) The Albatross (1970)

Nonfiction Grace Darling: Maid and Myth (1965) A History of Seafaring (London: Benn, 1967–69) – three 128-page volumes with maps and diagrams Volume 1: The Early Mariners Volume 2: The Discoverers Volume 3: The Merchantmen Themselves Alone: The story of men in empty places (1972) Powered Ships (1975)