Twenty Years at Sea or Leaves from My Old Log-books
by Frederic Stanhope Hill
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hill, Frederic Stanhope, 1829-1913
- Title
- Twenty years at sea: Leaves from my old log-books
- Original Publication
- United States: Houghton, Mifflin and Company,1893.
- Credits
- The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VK: Naval science: Navigation, Merchant marine
- Subject
- Hill, Frederic Stanhope, 1829-1913
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 68103
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68103
- Release Date
- May 17, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TWENTY YEARS AT SEA OR LEAVES FROM MY OLD LOG-BOOKS
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.PART I — IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE — CHAPTER I HOW I WENT TO SEA
- 5.CHAPTER II MY FIRST VOYAGE
- 6.CHAPTER III THE MUTINY
- 7.CHAPTER IV NOT BORN TO BE DROWNED
- 8.CHAPTER V A “SHANGHAEING” EPISODE
- 9.CHAPTER VI TO CALIFORNIA BEFORE THE GOLD DISCOVERY
- 10.CHAPTER VII RECAPTURING A RUNAWAY
- 11.CHAPTER VIII CHASED BY PIRATES
- 12.PART II — IN THE NAVAL SERVICE — CHAPTER I THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- 13.CHAPTER II A NIGHT ATTACK BY A CONFEDERATE RAM
- 14.CHAPTER III THE PASSAGE OF THE FORTS AND THE CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS
- 15.CHAPTER IV ON TO NEW ORLEANS
- 16.CHAPTER V CHASING A BLOCKADE RUNNER
- 17.CHAPTER VI A NARROW ESCAPE
- 18.CHAPTER VII A SUCCESSFUL STILL HUNT
- 19.CHAPTER VIII CATCHING A TARTAR
- 20.CHAPTER IX THE NAVAL TRAITOR
- 21.CHAPTER X HUNTING FOR BUSHWHACKERS
- 22.CHAPTER XI THE END OF THE STRUGGLE
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