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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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 110 - Let the American ships enter your ports ! Seize them afterward. You shall deliver the cargoes to me, and I will take them in part payment of the Prussian war-debt.
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 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.
Página 55 - ... Salem. Notwithstanding the disappointment in the principal object of the voyage, and the consequent determination to go to the coast of Guinea, his resolution not to endeavor to retrieve it by purchasing slaves, did the captain great honor, and reflected equal credit upon his owner, who, he assured me, would rather sink the whole capital employed than directly or indirectly be concerned in so infamous a trade.
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 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 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.
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.
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Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders Ronald J. Zboray,Mary Saracino Zboray Vista previa limitada - 2006 |