MacHassan Ah by Talbot Mundy is about naval officer Joe Byng's adventures in the Persian Gulf. Excerpt: "Waist-held in the chains and soused in the fifty-foot-high spray, Joe Byng eyed the sounding lead that swung like a pendulum below him and named it sacrilege. "This 'ere navy ain't a navy no more," he muttered. "This 'ere's a school- gal promenade, 'and-in-'and, an' mind not to get your little trotters wet, that's what this is, so 'elp me two able seamen an' a red marine!"
