{{More citations needed|date=March 2026}} {{short description|English writer, editor, and naval officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = | name = Edward Keble Chatterton | honorific_suffix = | image = E Keble Chatterton.jpg | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Keble Chatterton in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, in 1910 | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1878|09|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Sheffield | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|12|31|1878|09|10|df=y}} | death_place = | death_cause = | burial = | burial_label = | burial_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}}--> | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Navy | service_years = 1914–1919 | rank = lieutenant commander | unit = | commands = | known_for = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = | memorials = | alma_mater = St Stephen's House, Oxford | other_work = | module = }}
'''Edward Keble Chatterton''' (10 September 1878 – 31 December 1944) was a prolific writer who published around a hundred books, pamphlets and magazine series, mainly on maritime and naval themes. In the First World War he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR).
==Biography== He was born at 76, Rock Street, Sheffield, England; attended Sheffield Royal Grammar School;<ref>{{cite journal |date=March 1945 |title=Obituary |journal=King Edward VII School Magazine |volume=XI |issue=8 |url= http://oldedwardians.org.uk/nlc/mags/45march.html#chatterton}}</ref> and then St Paul's School, in Hammersmith, London. He took a BA at St Stephen's House, Oxford,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chatterton |first=E Keble |title=Oxford Letter |date=March 1897 |journal=The Sheffield Royal Grammar School Magazine |volume=VIII |issue=7 |url= http://oldedwardians.org.uk/nlc/mags/1897.Mar.html#chatterton}}</ref> and then began to write theatre and art reviews for various magazines. He edited ''The Lady's Realm'' from 1904 until 1906.<ref>{{cite web |title=Magazine Data Page 309 |work=Galactic Central |publisher=Paul Stephensen-Payne |url= http://www.philsp.com/data/data309.html#LADYSREALM}}</ref>
He made a number of small-boat voyages through the English Channel and the Netherlands. He recorded these voyages in magazine articles<ref>{{cite web |last=Chatterton |first=E Keble |title=The Sailors |work=SmallCraft |url= http://www.smallcraft.net/the_sailors/e._keble_chatterton/to_holland_in_a_4_tonner.php |archive-date=17 December 2005 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051217013629/http://www.smallcraft.net/the_sailors/e._keble_chatterton/to_holland_in_a_4_tonner.php}}</ref> and books, and wrote several books on the maritime art collections of the Low Countries.
When World War I began, Chatterton joined the RNVR, ultimately commanding a motor launch flotilla<ref>{{cite web |last=Charles |first=Jeffrey |year=2013 |title=The "Movies" |url= http://www.motorlaunchpatrol.net/}}{{Failed verification|date=March 2026}}</ref> at Queenstown, now Cobh, in Ireland. He describes these years in ''Q-Ships and their Story'' (1923), ''The Auxiliary Patrol'' (1924) and ''Danger Zone: The Story of the Queenstown Command'' (1934). He left the service in 1919 with the rank of Llieutenant Commander.
In the interbellum, his writing was continuous, and included a series of monographs on model ships, many histories of naval events, and a number of juvenile novels. Most of his books were republished in the United States, and several were translated into French and German.
He was a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club for many years, and made a multi-season voyage to the Mediterranean through French canals. He described these in a further series of books. His journeys on the Nantes–Brest canal are outlined in ''Through Brittany in "Charmina": From Torbay to the Bay of Biscay in a 6-Tonner'' (1933), journeys on the Canal du Midi are described in ''To the Mediterranean in "Charmina"'' (1934), and journeys along the French Riviera are described in ''"Charmina" on the Riviera'' (1937).
After 1939, his writing focused on the war with Germany. Hutchinson published a series by Chatterton documenting the Royal Navy at war. He died at the end of 1944, after which Kenneth Edwards completed the series.
==Published works== *{{cite book |year=1909 |title=Sailing ships; the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001623622}} *{{cite book |year=1910 |title=Down the Channel in the "Vivette" |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}} *{{cite book |year=1910 |title=Steamships and their Story |place=London |publisher=Cassell & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1911 |title=The Romance of the Ship, The Story of Her Origin and Evolution. |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1911 |title=The Story of the British Navy |place=London |publisher=Mills & Boon}} *{{cite book |year=1912 |title=Fore and aft, the story of the fore & aft rig from the earliest times to the present day |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co |url= https://archive.org/details/foreaftstoryoffo00chatrich |pages=vii, 232–233 |via=Internet Archive}} * {{cite book |year=1912 |title=King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700–1855 |place=London |publisher=George Allen & Co, Ltd}} *{{cite book |year=1913 |title=Aquitania: The Making of a Mammoth Liner |place=London |publisher=Cunard Steamship Co Ltd}} *{{cite book |year=1913 |title=Ships and Ways of Other Days |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Review of ''Ships and Ways of Other Days'' |journal=The Athenaeum |pages=151–152 |issue=4477 |date=16 August 1913 |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c109524956;view=1up;seq=169}}</ref> *{{cite book |year=1913 |title=Through Holland in the Vivette |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1914 |title=The Old East Indiamen |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1914 |title=The Romance of Piracy |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1914 |title=The Romance of Sea Rovers |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1917 |title=Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1921 |title=The Marvels of the Ship, The Story of the Development of the Ship from the Earliest Times. |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1923 |title=Q-Ships And Their Story |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}} *{{cite book |year=1923 |title=The Auxiliary Patrol |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}} *{{cite book |year=1923 |title=The Mercantile Marine |place=London |publisher=William Heinemann}} *{{cite book |editor-last=Holme |editor-first=Geoffrey |year=1923 |title=Ship Models |place=London |publisher=Studio Ltd}} *{{cite book |year=1924 |title=Eight Decades of Progress, History and Development of a Great Steamship Organisation |place=Manchester |publisher=TG Evans & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1924 |title=Seamen All |place=London |publisher=William Heinemann}} *{{cite book |year=1924 |title=Steamship Models |place=London |publisher=T Werner Laurie}} *{{cite book |year=1925 |title=Battles by Sea |place=London |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson}} *{{cite book |year=1925 |title=Whalers and Whaling. The Story of the Whaling Ships Up to the Present Day. |place=London |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin}} *{{cite book |year=1926 |title=Chats on Naval Prints |place=London |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin}} *{{cite book |year=1926 |title=The Ship under Sail. The Splendour of the Sailing Ship through the Ages. |place=London |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin}} *{{cite book |year=1926 |title=Windjammers and Shellbacks. Strange True Stories of the Sea. |place=London |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin}} *{{cite book |year=1927 |title=The Brotherhood of the Sea... With Illustrations. |place=London |publisher=Longman & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1927 |title=Captain John Smith |place=London |publisher=John Lane}} *{{cite book |year=1927 |title=Old Ship Prints |place=London |publisher=John Lane}} *{{cite book |year=1928 |title=Old Sea Paintings, the Story of Maritime Art as Depicted by the Great Masters. |place=London |publisher=John Lane}} *{{cite book |year=1928 |title=Ventures and Voyages |place=London |publisher=Rich & Cowan}} *{{cite book |year=1928 |title=King of the Air |place=Philadelphia |publisher=J. B. Lippincott & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1929 |title=On the High Seas |place=London |publisher=P Allen & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1929 |title=In Great Waters |place=London |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1930 |title=Through Sea and Sky |place=London |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1930 |title=English Seamen and the Colonization of America |place=London |publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd}} *{{cite book |year=1931 |title=Gallant Gentlemen |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1931 |title=Sailing the Seas, A Survey of Seafaring Through the Ages. |place=London |publisher=Chapman & Hall}} *{{cite book |year=1932 |title=The Königsberg Adventure |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1932 |title=The Sea Raiders |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1932 |title=Adventurers of the Air |place=London |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co.}} *{{cite book |year=1933 |title=Through Brittany in "Charmina" |place=London |publisher=Seeley, Service}} *{{cite book |year=1933 |title=The Yachtman's Pilot to the Harbours of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, & the Continent of Europe from Ymuiden to Bordeaux |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1934 |title=Below the Surface. A Naval Novel |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1934 |title=Danger Zone: The Story of the Queenstown Command |place=London |publisher=Rich & Cowan}} *{{cite book |year=1934 |title=The Big Blockade |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1934 |title=Sailing Models Ancient & Modern |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1935 |title=Amazing Adventure. A Thrilling Naval Biography |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1935 |title=Dardanelles Dilemma, The Story of Naval Operations |place=London |publisher=Rich & Cowan}} *{{cite book |year=1936 |title=Seas of Adventures, The Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1936 |title=Valiant Sailormen |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1937 |title=Charmina on the Riviera |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1937 |title=Sea Spy |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1938 |title=Severn's Saga |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1939 |title=Secret Ship. A Sea Novel |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1939 |title=Stories of the Seven Seas. Thrilling Exploits of the Navy. |place=London |publisher=World's Work}} *{{cite book |year=1940 |title=The Epic of Dunkirk |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1940 |title=The Leaders of the Royal Navy |place=London, Melbourne |publisher=Hutchinson & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1942 |title=Fighting the U-Boats, 1914–1916 |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1942–47 |title=The Royal Navy, Britain at War |place=London, Melbourne |publisher=Hutchinson & Co}} *{{cite book |year=1943 |title=Beating the U-Boats (1917 and 1918) |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1943 |title=Commerce Raiders |place=London |publisher=Hurst and Blackett}} *{{cite book |year=1943 |title=Scouts of the Sky |place=London |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co.}}
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==External links== *{{Commonscatinline}} *{{Gutenberg author |id=7457 |name=Edward Keble Chatterton}} * {{FadedPage |id=Chatterton, E. Keble |name=Edward Keble Chatterton |author=yes}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Keble Chatterton}} * {{Librivox author |id=13884}} *{{cite web |title=Keble Chatterton List |work=AchesonBlog |url= http://home.netcom.com/~achesonblog/id11.html |archive-date=4 February 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120204064202/http://home.netcom.com/~achesonblog/id11.html}} *{{cite web |last=Bruzelius |first=Lars |title=Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944) Bibliography. |work=Bruzelius.info |url= http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Bibliography/Chatterton,_EK.html |archive-date=23 January 2025 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250123142949/http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Bibliography/Chatterton,_EK.html}} {{Authority control}}
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