author
Aylward Edward Dingle
1874–1947
Sea voyages, shipwrecks, and pulp-magazine adventure all fed into the stories of this British sailor-novelist, whose life seems almost as dramatic as his fiction. Writing as Captain Dingle and sometimes as “Sinbad,” he turned years at sea into fast-moving tales of danger, treasure, and survival.
2 Audiobooks
Gold Out of Celebes
by Aylward Edward Dingle
The Pirate Woman
by Aylward Edward Dingle
About the author
Born in Oxford, England, in 1874, Aylward Edward Dingle was a sailor and writer remembered for turning a hard-lived maritime career into popular adventure fiction. Reliable sources agree that he spent many years at sea and later became known for sea stories and novels published under names including Captain Dingle and “Sinbad.”
His work appeared in pulp magazines such as Adventure and Blue Book, and some of his better-known books, including The Pirate Woman and Gold Out of Celebes, have remained available through Project Gutenberg. Reference sources also note that he wrote some speculative fiction, showing that his imagination ranged beyond straight seafaring adventure.
Dingle died in Cornwall in 1947. What makes him especially memorable is the way his fiction seems to grow directly out of lived experience: readers come to him not just for pirate plots and exotic settings, but for the feeling that the author knew the sea at first hand.