John Conroy Hutcheson (1840-1897) was a British author of novels and short stories about life aboard ships at sea. Hutcheson was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1840, and died in Portsea Island, Hampshire, in late 1896 or early 1897. His works include: The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; or, Castaway on Kerguelen Land (1885), The White Squall: A Story of the Sargasso Sea (1887), The Ghost Ship (1903) and She and I (1873).