American Merchant Ships and Sailors
American Merchant Ships and Sailors

Author: Willis J Abbot

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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When the Twentieth Century opened, the American sailor was almost extinct. The nation which, in its early and struggling days, had given to the world a race of seamen as adventurous as the Norse Vikings had, in the days of its greatness and prosperity turned its eyes away from the sea and yielded to other people the mastery of the deep. One living in the past, reading the newspapers, diaries and record-books of the early days of the Nineteenth Century, can hardly understand how an occupation which played so great a part in American life as seafaring could ever be permitted to decline. The dearest ambition of the American boy of our early national era was to command a clipper ship-but how many years it has been since that ambition entered into the mind of young America! In those days the people of all the young commonwealths from Maryland northward found their interests vitally allied with maritime adventure. Without railroads, and with only the most wretched excuses for post-roads, the States were linked together by the sea; and coastwise traffic early began to employ a considerable number of craft and men.

The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors

Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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This book gives a fascinating history of the American merchant marine. The book contains thrilling stories about brave Americans, their love for the sea, and adventures at sea in the 1600s and 1800s. In this book, the author focuses on American merchantmen, the American navy, privateers, and fishermen, as well as discussing the American revolution and post-revolutionary war dangers to merchantmen and the Federal legislation enacted to promote and protect the American sea trade. The book contains the following: Colonial Adventures in Little Ships - The Privateers of '76 - Out Cutlases and Board - The Famous Days of Salem Port - Yankee Vikings and New Trade Routes - Free Trade and Sailors' Rights - The Brilliant Era of 1812 - The Packet Ships of the "Roaring Forties" - The Stately Clippers and her Glory - Bound Coastwise.

The Old Merchant Marine
The Old Merchant Marine

Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Describes the beginnings of the merchant marine from colonial days up to the Civil War, including the personalities of the men who ran the ships and honorable mentions of the ships themselves.

American Merchant Ships and Sailors
American Merchant Ships and Sailors

Author: Willis J 1863-1934 Abbot

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781356465491

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