William Clark Russell 
Wreck of the Grosvenor [PDF ebook] 
An Account of the Mutiny of the Crew and the Loss of the Ship When Trying to Make the Bermudas

After a career at sea that caused his health to deteriorate, William Clark Russell retired and turned his attention to writing. Though he published several novels before The Wreck of the Grosvenor, this action-packed account of growing tensions among a ship’s crew that eventually erupt into full-blown mutiny was his first major success.