The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
By Ralph Delahaye Paine
Length4h 27m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "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 genius for seafaring won and held a brilliant supremacy through two centuries and then forsook this heritage of theirs. The period of achievement was no more extraordinary than was its swift declension. A maritime race whose topsails flecked every ocean, whose captains courageous from father to son had fought with pike and cannonade to defend the freedom of the seas, turned inland to seek a different destiny and took no more thought for the tall ships and rich cargoes which had earned so much renown for its flag. Vanished fleets and brave memories—a chronicle of America which had written its closing chapters before the Civil War! There will be other Yankee merchantmen in times to come, but never days like those when skippers sailed on seas uncharted in quest of ports mysterious and unknown. The Pilgrim Fathers, driven to the northward of their intended destination in Virginia, landed on the shore of Cape Cod not so much to clear the forest and till the soil as to establish a fishing settlement. Like the other Englishmen who long before 1620 had steered across to harvest the cod on the Grand Bank, they expected to wrest a livelihood mostly from salt water. The convincing argument in favour of Plymouth was that it offered a good harbor for boats and was "a place of profitable fishing." Both pious and amphibious were these pioneers whom the wilderness and the red Indian confined to the water's edge, where they were soon building ships to trade corn for beaver skins with the Kennebec colony."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (26)
Includes Goodreads
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 11, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
6CHAPTER VI.
2CHAPTER II.
7CHAPTER VII.
3CHAPTER III.
8CHAPTER VIII.
4CHAPTER IV.
9CHAPTER IX.
5CHAPTER V.
10CHAPTER X.
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