The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902 - Winthrop Lippitt Marvin - Google Books

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THE COLONY SHIPS

Early Americans, Shipbuilders and Seamen First of All-Wealth

of Ship-Timber-British Meddling with Colonial Sea Trade-

Vital Work of the Privateers of the Revolution - Far More

Effective than the Continental Navy-Our Great Debt to the

Sailors of 1775-83.

OLD RIGS AND MODELS

The "Mayflower" a Typical Seventeenth-Century Merchantman -

Her Rig and Dimensions - The Incoming of the Yankee

Schooner Brig, Snow, Brigantine, and Ketch Crude Gear

and Cumbering Artillery - Skilful Shipwrights of the New

AFTER THE REVOLUTION

American Vessels shut out of British Trade - Helplessness of our

Unprotected Shipping - A Few Bold Voyages to the Far East

-The "Empress of China" and the "Experiment ” — More

Loss than Profit - The Demand for National Encouragement.

THE FIRST SWIFT GROWTH. 1789-1800

Protection for Shipping the Earliest Act of the Federal Congress

in 1789 The Atlantic, the Coastwise, and the East Indian

Trade all included - Immediate Response of our Shipowners

and Seamen - A Wonderful Upspringing of Marine Activity-

Bold Merchants and Bolder Masters A Fivefold Growth by

1800-The Barbary Corsairs and our Shameful Tribute —

French Depredations and an Ocean War- The Robbery of

A CELEBRATED VOYAGE

From Boston to the Northwest Coast- A New Commerce Opened

by the "Columbia" and "Lady Washington" - Furs for

China and Tea for Home First to circumnavigate the Globe

The Columbia's" Second Venture-
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Her Meeting with

Vancouver and Discovery of the Columbia River - How Oregon

was won for the United States

THE MERCHANT NAVIGATORS

America's First Great East Indiaman - The "Massachusetts'

and her Interesting but Ill-Starred Voyage - Groping down

the Coast of Africa A Rotten Ship and an Unsalable Cargo

Captain Delano and his Exploits in many Seas - Captain

Richard Cleveland- In a Cockleshell to the Cape of Good

Hope In Another across the Wide Pacific - A Trading

Voyage around the World - Thirty-Five-Fold Profit in Seven

Years Cleveland's Last Voyage in Astor's "Beaver

Vigor and Resourcefulness of the Old Master Mariners

IMPRESSMENT AND EMBARGO. 1801-15

Jefferson's Cautious Course-Playing War with the Barbary

Pirates - Preble fights in Earnest England, France, and

the "Rule of 1756"-Decrees and Orders in Council launched

against our Neutral Merchantmen - Yankee Seamen kidnapped

into the British Fleet The "Leander" and the "Richard"

— The "Leopard" and the "Chesapeake❞— Our Retaliation

in the Embargo of 1807- More Harmful to us than to our

Enemies - Napoleon's Trap sprung on American Vessels —

The Day of Retribution - War declared against Great Britain

Brilliant Work of Armed Merchant Ships as Privateers -

Impressment shot to Pieces - Our Tonnage, 1801-15. ..

THE YANKEE WHALEMEN

Bold Pioneers of Cape Cod, Long Island, and Nantucket - Havoc

of the Revolutionary War The First South-Sea Whalers-

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A True Co-operative Industry - Hardships, Perils, and Tri-

umphs of the Calling - Porter and his Exploits in the Pacific

- Rapid Growth after the War of 1812 Ventures to Japan

and the Arctic Three-Fourths of the World's Whaleships

American Burke's Famous Tribute Strange Fate of the

Whaler "Essex "-Tragedies and Hairbreadth Escapes - Great

Profit of Successful Voyages Whaling at its Zenith Ruin-

ous Work of the "Shenandoah" - Disaster in the Frozen

North- An Almost-Vanished Industry — Risk and Cost too

Heavy, Whales too Few- Whaleship Tonnage for a Hundred

RECIPROCITY ON THE SEA. 1816-30

Merchant Shipping in 1815 a Genuinely National Interest - Mis-

givings over the First Change of Policy -Protection yielded

in Direct Trade with Britain - United States overreached

Plaster of Paris Act- Our Vigorous Retaliation - More Mis-

Named "Reciprocity" in 1828 Steamship "Savannah"

first to cross the Ocean - Splendid Lines of Yankee Packet

Ships Fight for West India Commerce - The Navy crushes

West India Piracy - Tonnage almost at a Standstill

A NEW-WORLD VENICE

Salem and her Adventurous Commerce Always a Shipbuilding

and Shipowning Town-Active in the Revolution - First

Voyage to Cape of Good Hope-On to India and China,

Oceanica and the Philippines - Salem Ships in Africa and

South America-No Ports unvisited, no Seas unexplored-

Shipowners and Merchants Both in One - The Frigate

"Essex"-Salem Privateers of 1812 - Hawthorne and the

Old Custom House - Trade and Fleet now but a Memory.

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An Era of Maritime Activity all over the World

Shipping stand without Protection? - Splendid Sailing Packets

-Yankee Vessels everywhere "Most in Demand"- Great

Britain begins to subsidize Steamships - The State-aided

Cunard Line and Other Enterprises - Competition which our

Merchants and Shipowners cannot meet - Brave Struggle for

the Supremacy of the Ocean A Yankee Merchantman as

Richard H. Dana saw her in 1836 Fifteen Years' Growth

MAIL SHIPS AND CLIPPERS. 1846-60

American Merchant Marine at the Height of its Strength and

Glory - Mail Subsidies granted by the United States - Quick

Success of the New Departure A Steam Line to Havre

and Bremen - Pacific Mail Company - Collins Line to Liver-

pool and its Superb Fleet - Cunarders eclipsed in Size, Com-

fort, and Speed by the New Americans - Evolution of the

Yankee Clippers - Ocean-Racing around Cape Horn-

Britain's Safe Repeal of her Navigation Laws Few Vessels

purchased from America - Famous American Shipbuilders :

William H. Webb, Donald McKay - The "Great Republic”.

Captain Samuels and the "Dreadnought " American Ships

and Seamen everywhere Superior The Fateful Year 1855 -

Loss of the Arctic" and "Pacific". Rise of Southern Op-

position to the Ocean Mail Law - Collins Subsidy reduced in

1856- Renewed Southern Attack upon Northern Steamship

Interests Overthrow of the Subsidy System in 1858, and

Destruction of American Steam Lines to Europe - Great

Britain now Supreme on the North Atlantic - British Sub-

sidies More Persistent and More Liberal — American Ship-

building on the Wane before the Civil War - High-Water

Mark of Merchant Tonnage

THE DEEP-SEA FISHERIES

An Historic Industry of America Marblehead and Gloucester

Pioneers - British Jealousy of New England - After the

Revolutionary War - National Bounties for the Fishermen -

Rapid Growth of the Yankee Fleet - Splendid Service in the

War of 1812 - British Persecution renewed Toilers of the

Sea undaunted A New England Monopoly - Unfailing Nurs-

ery of Seamanship - Perils and Profits of the Calling - Cana-

dian Hostility Persistent Withdrawal of the Bounties and

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