found: His Fenceless meadows, 1923.
found: Adams, Bill. Ships and women, 1937:title page (Bill Adams)
found: Searchable Sea Literature, via WWW, October 14, 2015 :Adams, Bertram Martin (ADAMS, BERTRAM MARTIN [BILL ADAMS] ( 1879-1953 ). Bill Adams was born in England to American parents. He left college to go to sea at age seventeen ... After retiring from the sea, he lived in the San Francisco area ... In 1921 Adams began a modest literary career of his own, culminating in 1937 with an autobiography, Ships and Women. His early sea stories were collected in Fenceless Meadows (1923), and he published a volume of sea verse, Wind in the Topsails, in 1923 ...) - http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/a/adams-bertram-martin/
found: PulpFlakes, via WWW, October 14, 2015 :Bill Adams -- sailor, short story writer, poet, 6 July 2012 (Bertram Martin "Bill" Adams was born on 24 February, 1879, in Sevenoaks, England, to American parents ... Bill Adams passed away on 12 Mar, 1953) - http://pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/05/bill-adams-sailor-short-story-writer.html
found: Ashley, Michael. The Supernatural Index, 1995 :page 65 (Adams, Bill: working name of Bertram Martin Adams (1879-1953) ...)
found: Who was who in America. Volume 6 (1974-1976), 1976 :page 2 (Adams, Bertram Martin (Bill Adams), writer, b. of Am. parents in Eng. Feb. 24, 1879 ... Home: Walnut Creek, Cal.)
found: California, Death Index, 1940-1997 via Ancestry.com, April 14, 2020:(Bertram Martin Adams, b. 1 Feb 1879, other country ; d. 12 Mar 1953, Placer)
found: U.S., WWI Civilian Draft Registrations, 1917-1918 via Ancestry.com, April 14, 2020:(Adams, Bertram Martin, b. 24 Feb 1879)