The Old Merchant Marine A Chronicle Of American Ships And Sailors

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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.

Excerpt from The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors A vessel was a community venture, and the custom still survives in the ancient ports of the Maine coast where the shapely wooden schooners are fashioned. The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares. They became part owners, as did likewise the merchant who supplied stores and material; and when the ship was a oat, the master, the mates, and even the seamen, were allowed cargo space for commodities which they might buy and sell to their own ad vantage. Thus early they learned to trade as shrewdly as they navigated, and every voyage directly concerned a whole neighborhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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