THE AMERICAN

MERCHANT MARINE

MERCHANT MARINE

ITS HISTORY AND ROMANCE

FROM 1620 TO 1902

BY

WINTHROP L. MARVIN

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1916

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THE AUTHOR OF "THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812"

A STANCH FRIEND OF THE AMERICAN SHIP

AND THE AMERICAN SAILOR

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

President of the United States