sea story

“In my years in the Navy, it wouldn’t be a sea story if there wasn’t some embellishment,” Hung Cao, acting Navy Secretary, said at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“How did that happen? … There’s a great sea story there that we’ll never know.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020

But there was no better sea story in Rio than Santiago Lange of Argentina.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016

Mystery stories shlock-style had a white strip, but the librarian would never file Chandler or Highsmith under mystery – they were literature, just as Moby-Dick was not a sea story and was not romance.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012

In plain English, I judged that the sea story had been irremediably depressed, and rendered wholly ridiculous by the strenuous periodic and Christmas labours of the Writer for Boys.

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