The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and SailorsYale University Press, 1919 - 214 páginas 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. |
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The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 17 - 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 52 - ... two full months before the skirmish at Lexington. Eight of the nineteen cannon which it was proposed to seize from the patriots had been taken from the ships of Captain Richard Derby and stored in his warehouse for the use of the Provincial Congress. It was Richard's son, Captain John Derby, who carried to England in the swift schooner Quero the first news of the affair at Lexington, ahead of the King's messenger. A sensational arrival, if ever there was one! This Salem shipmaster, cracking on...
Página 44 - 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 60 - Derby and his own share was the snug little fortune of four thousand dollars. Part of this he, of course, invested at sea, and at twenty-two he was part owner of the Betsy, East Indiaman, and on the road to independence. As second mate in the Benjamin had sailed Richard Cleveland, another matured mariner of nineteen, who crowded into one life an Odyssey of adventure noteworthy even in that era and who had the knack of writing about it with rare skill and spirit. In 1797, when twenty-three years old,...
Página 12 - ... frame, whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and blackened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He wears an immense periwig flowing down over his shoulders. His coat has a wide embroidery of golden foliage, and his waistcoat likewise is all flowered over and bedizened with gold. His red rough hands, which have done many a good day's work with the hammer and adze, are half covered by the delicate lace ruffles at his wrists.
Página 128 - 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 60 - I believe him to be more of a soldier than a sailor, though he has often assured me that he has been boatswain's mate of a Dutch Indiaman, which I do not believe, as he hardly knows how to put two ends of a rope together.
Página 60 - Next is an English boy of seventeen years old, who from having lately had the small-pox is feeble and almost blind, a miserable object, but pity for his misfortunes induces me to make his duty as easy as possible. Finally I have a little ugly French boy, the very image of a baboon, who from having served for some time on different privateers has all the tricks of a veteran manof-war's man, though only thirteen years old, and by having been in an English prison, has learned enough of the language...
Página 108 - 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 52 - East, he employed his brigs and schooners in making up the assortment, by sending them to Gottenburg and St. Petersburg for iron, duck, and hemp ; to France, Spain, and Madeira, for wine and lead; to the West Indies for spirits; and to New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond, for flour, provisions, iron, and tobacco...
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 |