Sea Menace (1958) is a novel for children by Australian author John Gunn, illustrated by Brian Keogh.
It was joint winner of the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1959.
[1] At the time when William Bligh was Governor of New South Wales, young Paul Harris, his cousin and uncle, journey from London to Sydney to farm in New South Wales.
A reviewer for The Canberra Times found that nowhere "is there anything specially Australian about the people or the setting; except for one mention of 'eucalyptus' trees and some description of early Sydney it might all be happening anywhere.
But all this matters little; the story is the important thing, and it is told in a straightforward and vigorous style that holds the interest even when the courage and skill of the two boys and their grown-up friends, and the succession of hairbreadth escapes, would otherwise seem just a little too good to be true.