Ralph D. Paine

The Old Merchant Marine: a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors (Dodo Press) Ralph D. Paine

"The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. 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."