The Story of the American Merchant Marine
by John Randolph Spears
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spears, John Randolph, 1850-1936
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Merchant marine -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 53122
- Release Date
- September 22, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.CHAPTER I IN THE BEGINNING
- 5.CHAPTER II EARLY GROWTH
- 6.CHAPTER III EVOLUTION OF THE SMUGGLER AND THE PIRATE
- 7.CHAPTER IV BEFORE THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
- 8.CHAPTER V MERCHANTMEN IN BATTLE ARRAY
- 9.CHAPTER VI EARLY ENTERPRISE OF THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE
- 10.CHAPTER VII FRENCH AND OTHER SPOLIATIONS
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE BRITISH AGGRESSIONS
- 12.CHAPTER IX THE BEGINNINGS OF STEAM NAVIGATION
- 13.CHAPTER X PRIVATEERS, PIRATES, AND SLAVERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 14.CHAPTER XI THE HARVEST OF THE SEA BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
- 15.CHAPTER XII THE PACKET LINES AND THE CLIPPERS
- 16.CHAPTER XIII DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS—PART I
- 17.CHAPTER XIV DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS—PART II
- 18.CHAPTER XV THE CRITICAL PERIOD
- 19.CHAPTER XVI DURING A HALF CENTURY OF DEPRESSION
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