The autobiography of Sir Dudley de Chair, covering his naval career from 1878 to 1917, was edited by his son Seymour de Chair and published under the title The Sea is Strong in 1961. The publishers and Seymour de Chair considered that de Chair's memoirs of his later life, including his time as Governor of New South Wales, belonged to a separate book. Up to 2017, the two Australian volumes have not been published.