The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and SailorsYale University Press, 1919 - 214 páginas |
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The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
adventurous afloat Amasa Delano American ships ashore Atlantic packet boats Boston boys brig broadside builders built Canton canvas Cape Horn captured cargo carried cent century chief mate China clipper ship coast coastwise colonies command commerce Congress crew cruise cruisers Cunard deck deep-water dollars Dutch East India East Indiamen Elias Hasket Derby England English fifty fishing flag fleet forecastle foreign fought four France freight French frigate guns hands Haraden harbor hundred Indiamen island Jonathan Haraden Liverpool London maritime Massachusetts master mate merchandise merchant marine merchantmen miles Nantucket NATHANIEL SILSBEE nation navigation navy old merchant marine owners packet ships passage Peabody Museum pirates port privateers privateersmen prize profit race Ranzo rigging sailed sailors Salem schooner Sea Witch seafaring seamen sent shipmaster Silas Talbot skipper slaves sloop Spanish speed spirit steamers thousand tion tonnage tons topsails twenty venture vessels voyage West Indies whaling wind Yankee York
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Página 21 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 119 - The year of 1812 was indeed but a little distance from the resplendent modern 117 era of the Atlantic packet and the Cape Horn clipper. Already these Yankee deep-water ships could be recognized afar by their lofty spars and snowy clouds of cotton duck beneath which the slender hull was a thin black line. Far up to the gleaming royals they carried sail in winds so strong that the lumbering English East Indiamen were hove to or snugged down to reefed topsails. It was not recklessness but better seamanship....
Página 98 - The loss of seamen, unnoticed, would be followed by other losses in a long train. If we have no seamen, our ships will be useless, consequently our ship timber, iron, and hemp; our...
Página 48 - It is not probable that the American States will have a very free trade in the Mediterranean. It will not be to the interest of any of the great maritime powers to protect them from the Barbary States. If they know their interests, they will not encourage the Americans to be carriers. That the Barbary States are advantageous to maritime powers is certain. If they are suppressed, the little States of Italy would have much more of the carrying trade.
Página 55 - ... nation with the tidings which meant the loss of an American empire! A singular coincidence was that this same Captain John Derby should have been the first mariner to inform the United States that peace had come, when he arrived from France in 1783 with the message that a treaty had been signed. Elias Hasket Derby was another son of Richard. When his manifold energies were crippled by the war, he diverted his ability and abundant resources into privateering. He was interested in at least eighty...
Página 104 - Liberty of your Country ! Step forth and give your assistance in building the frigate to oppose French insolence and piracy. Let every man in possession of a white oak tree be ambitious to be foremost in hurrying down the timber to Salem where the noble structure is to be fabricated to maintain your rights upon the seas and make the name of America respected among the nations of the world. Your largest and longest trees are wanted, and the arms of them for knees and rising timber. Four trees are...
Página 132 - Indies against America from feelings of commercial rivalry. Its active seamen have already engrossed an important branch of our carrying-trade to the Eastern Indies. . . . Her starred flag is now conspicuous on every sea, and will soon defy our thunder.
Página 112 - Every morning, at daybreak we set about arresting the progress of all the vessels we saw, firing off guns to the right and left to make every ship that was running in heave to or wait until we had leisure to send a boat on board to see, in our lingo, what she was made of.
Página 102 - Union flag, and passed under our lee at a considerable distance. We wore ship, she did the same and we passed each other within half a musket. A fellow hailed us in broken English and ordered the boat hoisted out and the captain to come on board with his papers, which he refused. He again ordered our boat out and enforced his orders with a menace that in case of refusal he would sink us, using at the same time the vilest and most infamous language it is possible to conceive of.
Página 63 - This reminded him to speak of his own family. Of the three Silsbee brothers, "each of us obtained the command of vessels and the consignment of their cargoes before attaining the age of twenty years, viz., myself at the age of eighteen and a half, my brother William at nineteen and a half, and my brother Zachariah before he was twenty years old. Each and all of us left off going to sea before reaching the age of twenty-nine years." How resourcefully these children of the sea could handle affairs...
Referencias a este libro
The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced ... Jerome R. Garitee Vista de fragmentos - 1977 |
Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray Vista previa limitada - 2006 |