# Edward Keble Chatterton

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'''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](/source/Royal_Naval_Reserve) (RNVR).

==Biography==
He was born at 76, Rock Street, [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield), [England](/source/England); attended [Sheffield Royal Grammar School](/source/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](/source/St_Paul's_School_(London)), in Hammersmith, London. He took a BA at [St Stephen's House](/source/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](/source/English_Channel) and the [Netherlands](/source/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](/source/World_War_I) began, Chatterton joined the RNVR, ultimately commanding a [motor launch](/source/Motor_launch_(naval)) 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](/source/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](/source/Lieutenant_commander_(Royal_Navy)).

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](/source/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](/source/Nantes%E2%80%93Brest_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](/source/Canal_du_Midi) are described in ''To the Mediterranean in "Charmina"'' (1934), and journeys along the [French Riviera](/source/French_Riviera) are described in ''"Charmina" on the Riviera'' (1937).

After 1939, his writing focused on the war with Germany. [Hutchinson](/source/Hutchinson_Heinemann) 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](/source/Sidgwick_%26_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](/source/Cassell_(publisher))}}
*{{cite book |year=1911 |title=The Romance of the Ship, The Story of Her Origin and Evolution. |place=London |publisher=[Seeley, Service](/source/Seeley%2C_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](/source/Internet_Archive)}}
* {{cite book |year=1912 |title=King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700–1855 |place=London |publisher=[George Allen & Co, Ltd](/source/George_Allen_(publisher))}}
*{{cite book |year=1913 |title=Aquitania: The Making of a Mammoth Liner |place=London |publisher=[Cunard Steamship Co Ltd](/source/Cunard_Line)}}
*{{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](/source/Heinemann_(publisher))}}
*{{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](/source/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](/source/Longman) & Co}}
*{{cite book |year=1927 |title=Captain John Smith |place=London |publisher=[John Lane](/source/John_Lane_(publisher))}}
*{{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](/source/Rich_%26_Cowan)}}
*{{cite book |year=1928 |title=King of the Air |place=Philadelphia |publisher=[J. B. Lippincott & Co.](/source/J._B._Lippincott_%26_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.](/source/Frederick_Warne_%26_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](/source/J._W._Arrowsmith_Ltd)}}
*{{cite book |year=1931 |title=Gallant Gentlemen |place=London |publisher=[Hurst and Blackett](/source/Hurst_and_Blackett)}}
*{{cite book |year=1931 |title=Sailing the Seas, A Survey of Seafaring Through the Ages. |place=London |publisher=[Chapman & Hall](/source/Chapman_%26_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.}}

==References==
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*{{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}}
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