The Story of the American Merchant Marine. John Randolph Spears

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       CHAPTER I IN THE BEGINNING

       CHAPTER II EARLY GROWTH

       CHAPTER III EVOLUTION OF THE SMUGGLER AND THE PIRATE

       CHAPTER IV BEFORE THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION

       CHAPTER V MERCHANTMEN IN BATTLE ARRAY

       CHAPTER VI EARLY ENTERPRISE OF THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE

       CHAPTER VII FRENCH AND OTHER SPOLIATIONS

       CHAPTER VIII THE BRITISH AGGRESSIONS

       CHAPTER IX THE BEGINNINGS OF STEAM NAVIGATION

       CHAPTER X PRIVATEERS, PIRATES, AND SLAVERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

       CHAPTER XI THE HARVEST OF THE SEA BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

       CHAPTER XII THE PACKET LINES AND THE CLIPPERS

       CHAPTER XIII DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS—PART I

       CHAPTER XIV DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS—PART II

       CHAPTER XV THE CRITICAL PERIOD

       CHAPTER XVI DURING A HALF CENTURY OF DEPRESSION

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      THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINE

CHAPTER I

       IN THE BEGINNING

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      THE first vessel built within the limits of the United States for commercial uses was a sea-going pinnace of thirty tons named the Virginia. Her keel was laid at the mouth of the Kennebec River, in Maine, on an unnamed day in the fall of 1607. The story of this vessel, though brief, is of great interest because, in part, of certain peculiarities of rig and hull which, in connection with a sea-going vessel, now seem astounding, but chiefly because it portrays something of the character of the men who, a little later, laid the foundations of the American Republic.

      The adventure which led to the building of the Virginia grew out of that wonderful harvest of the sea, the cod fishery on the СКАЧАТЬ