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Loading... The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (original 1921; edition 1961)by Samuel Eliot Morison
Work InformationThe Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison (1921)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Highly entertaining look at, as the title says, the maritime history of the Bay State from independence to the Civil Warr. First published in 1921, the book covers such areas as fishing, whalers, clipper ships and trade with various countries. Morison dug into a lot of primary source material still available at that time, including personal recollections. Very good for nautical history fans. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: R. B. Forbes, A Discursive Sketch on Yachting (1888), and Voyage of the Jamestown (1847). 17. Steam Navigation And Sailing Packet Lines (chap. xv). F. B. C. Bradlee, Steam Navigation in New England (Salem, 1920, reprinted from E.I.H.C.) gives a detailed account of the lines north of Boston with illustrations. The same author, in a series of articles in the International Marine Engineering between 1910 and 1920, describes the lines south of Boston. His The Dreadnought of New- buryport (Salem, 1920, reprinted with additions from E.I.H.C.), contains material on the sailing packets. Samuel Samuels, From the Forecastle to the Cabin (N.Y., 1887). Moses W. Mann, Medford Steamboat Days, Medford Historical Register, xv1l, 92 (1914). Pliny Miles, Advantages of Ocean Steam Navigation (1857) contains much data on Southern coasting trade. R. B. Forbes, The Auxiliary Screw Ship Massachusetts (1853), and Remarks on Ocean Steam Navigation (1855). 18. East India And Ice Trade. Frederic Tudor MSS., in private hands, and Tudor's own story, written in 1849, in Proc. M.H.S., III, 53-60. Boston Board of Trade, Third Annual Report (1857). 19. Whaling. There is need of a comprehensive history of this industry, paying due attention to the labor and business aspects, and using the almost untouched mines of information in the New Bedford Whalemen's Shipping List (1843-1916), the New Bedford customs records, and the log books and business records at the New Bedford Public Library and elsewhere. The standard histories are Obed Macy, History of Nantucket (1835); Alexander Starbuck, His- tory of the American Whale Fishery (with complete list of whaling voyages, Waltham, 1878); and Walter S. Tower, History of the Ameri- can Whale Fishery (Pub. of the U. of Penn. No. 20, 1907), with bib- liography... No library descriptions found. |
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