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Fighting Fleets
A look at the day-to-day work of the Allied Naval Forces during the First World War, particularly in regard to the relationship between the British navy and the U.S. navy in 1918. …
Corsair In The War Zone
Excerpt: "e;The task of the American Navy in the great conflict was performed exceedingly well, but so very quietly that even now the merits of the achievement are realized …
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
This book was written over 90 years ago and is set in Charles town, Carolina in 1718. The protagonist is Jack Cockrell, a young man from a good background. The tale follows his …
Wrecking Master
Excerpt: "e;"e;A thick night and no mistake, Dan. It's as black as the face of a Nassau pilot. We ought to be nearing the coal wharf by now. Of course they wouldn't have …
Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812
Excerpt: "e;The American people of today, weighed in the balances of the greatest armed conflict of all time and found not wanting, can afford to survey, in a spirit of candid …
Steam-Shovel Man
A great Sea Story. Excerpt: "e;The tall youth had no intention of waiting to be paid for his services, but he lived in an inland town and the deck of a ship was a strange and …
Book of Buried Treasure
Excerpt: "e;With the name of pirate is also associated ideas of rich plunder, caskets of buried jewels, chests of gold ingots, bags of outlandish coins, secreted in lonely, out …
Praying Skipper, and Other Stories
A great Sea Story. Excerpt: "e;A fortnight later the Suwannee was steaming across the sapphire Gulf. Before her bow flying-fish skittered and splashed like flights of shrapnel …
Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
Excerpt: "e;The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A people with a native …
Four Bells, A Tale of the Caribbean
Excerpt: "e;The romance of the sea! Damned rubbish, he called it. The trade of seafaring was one way to earn a living. This was about all you could say for it. He had been …
Old Merchant Marine
Fantastic true stories of American ships and sailors in the times before the Civil War.
Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
pubOne.info present you this new edition. The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A …