Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Fairburn, William Armstrong

Merchant sail Volume 2 William Armstrong Fairburn - Center Lovell, Maine Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation 1945-55 - 757 - 1584 p. - Merchant sail Volume II .

United States merchant sail--types, models, and rigs; clippers and square-riggers of the post-clipper period; speed of sailing vessels; the clipper ship era and the California trade

War of 1812; pre-eminence of U.S. commerce before the Civil War; fisheries and whaling; U.S. world leadership in scientific navigation; the sailing packet era; steam navigation; the clipper ship era and the rise and decline of the U.S. merchant marine --


History--United States



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