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  THE "MAMMOTH"--THE SYSTEM OF CONVOYS AND THE "RUNNING SHIPS"--A TYPICAL PRIVATEERS'' BATTLE--THE "GENERAL ARMSTRONG


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id: 15648
title: American Merchant Ships and Sailors
author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
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  [Illustration: NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS] NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS _Frontispiece_ MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS New England early took the lead in building ships and manning them, and and many an American ship was left short-handed far out at sea, after a shipped before the mast, records that on his first vessel men seeking the old days of ocean travel the meeting of a ship at sea was an event has long restricted the trade between ports of the United States to ships American ships for seven long years, and at its close the whalers found boats from an American and British ship were in pursuit of the same whale, SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL


id: 28704
title: Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade
author: Codman, John
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  and that New England ships--for nearly all vessels were built in that their commerce in British built ships was one exciting cause of the England had abandoned that class of vessels in favor of iron screw back in memory to the time when in the days of sailing ships, our take them to equal American shipbuilders in skill, material and cost. new motors on the sea by means of wooden sailing ships and paddle the cost of a ship in the United States, and that in the country where given, applies with greater force to ship building than to any other shipbuilding or ship owning. difference in cost of British and American steamships _of the same now build steamships cheaper and better than they can be built upon rates paid to men in the ship-yard while on time, but this known iron ship and engine building firm of New York.


id: 3099
title: The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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  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.


id: 40958
author: Dana, Richard Henry
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  yard-arm, and lead through a single block at the mast-head, and set up other end seized to the yard, crossing the foot-rope. is through the lower cap, cast off the end of the mast-rope, letting is no rope of any kind round the yard-arm.) Reeve the lifts and braces, reeve a heel-rope through a block at the jib-boom end, and bend it to reeve the yard-rope through the sheave-hole of the topgallant mast, yard-rope through a jack-block at the mast-head, unhook the tye, cast TO SET A TOPGALLANT SAIL OR ROYAL.--Haul home the lee sheet, having one head yards, keeping the sails full, board fore tack and aft the sheet, studdingsail, brace up the head yards, haul forward the fore tack, and A rope or tackle, going from the yard-arms to the mast-head, to A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the vessel''s

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  The Seaman''s Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service


id: 31953
title: Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants'' service in the war
author: Bone, David W. (David William)
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  was haled to hard and rigorous sea-service on vessels of war. the sea-trade to each individual of the ship''s company. beautiful of man''s creations on the sea--the square-rigged sailing ship sea-services, with other ships--to the absurd pretensions of the other The war has brought a new prominence to our sea-trade. their sea-life and its hardships, he noted the ship-measures and rude with the conduct of shipping and sea-affairs, our new controllers of the of our skilled seamen and numbers of our sea-officers were marking time destroy the ships and leave the seamen to the wind and sea and bitter with the new sea-warfare--with disaster to the shipping in the channels. convoy of merchant ships zigzag in confusing angles on their way to sea, for absence of ship-life, but out here--the clear horizon of an open sea [Illustration: A STANDARD SHIP AT SEA] Never, since the days of sailing ships and the leisurely deep-sea


