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3099	Paine, Ralph Delahaye	The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors			.txt	text/plain	41927	1846	71	The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which of shipping merchants was Philip English, who was sailing his own ketch first two years of the war, as many as nine hundred American ships were been so long closed to American shipping that little demand was left for trade"--an unusual point of view for a shipping merchant of New England The American ship Franklin arrived at Batavia in 1799 and Captain James complete freedom of trade for British shipping in American ports. commander to visit every American ship in port and take from each of out of the hands of the English ship-owner, and that British vessels, Clipper ship crews included men of many nations. sailors to man half the ships that were built in these few years, and mostly recruited from the old fishing and shipping ports of New England American forecastle life in the sailing-ship era.	./cache/3099.txt	./txt/3099.txt