Download or read book Fifty Five Years at Sea written by Monica Ruth Pattangall and published by Monica Ruth Pattangall. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Five Years at Sea is the story of the author's great-great-grandfather, Captain William Sewall Nickels ((1836-1920). For fifty-five years, he had no fixed address. He was one of the hundreds of nineteenth century master mariners from Prospect, now Searsport, Maine. Captain Nickels spent fifty-five years of his life on merchant sailing vessels, forty-five of them as commander. His wife followed him to sea, and his daughters were raised on his ships.In words and pictures, it covers seven generations of Captain Nickels' family from the time his great-grandparents first settled on the shores of Penobscot Bay, before the American Revolution. It follows his early years on a farm in Prospect (now Searsport), Maine; his fifty-five years as a merchant mariner; his retirement to Sailors' Snug Harbor in Staten Island, New York; the fates of his children and grandchildren, and the births of his great-grandchildren in the years before his death. It is a memorial to a simple man, an uncelebrated mariner, who lived long, worked hard, loved deeply, and spent fifty-five years at sea.

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Download or read book The Sea girt Fortress written by Percy F. Westerman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland" by Percy F. Westerman is a thrilling tale set against the backdrop of the strategic island of Heligoland. Westerman's storytelling brings to life the tension and challenges faced by the characters in a high-stakes environment. This book is a captivating read for those interested in historical adventures, military strategy, and tales of courage in the face of danger.

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Download or read book A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1813 dictionary covers every aspect of seafaring, from shipbuilding to navigation, and from supplies to signals.

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Download or read book Jack London s Adventure Collection written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 3947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This particular Jack London collection mirrors the incredible adventurous life of the author, it shows all the things he witnessed and experienced on his travels. Besides being a novelist, journalist and social activist – Jack London was also a railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, an oyster pirate, rancher, war correspondent..._x000D_ Novels_x000D_ The Cruise of the Dazzler_x000D_ A Daughter of the Snows_x000D_ The Call of the Wild_x000D_ The Sea-Wolf_x000D_ White Fang_x000D_ Burning Daylight_x000D_ Adventure_x000D_ The Scarlet Plague_x000D_ A Son of the Sun_x000D_ The Abysmal Brute_x000D_ The Mutiny of the Elsinore_x000D_ Jerry of the Islands_x000D_ Michael, Brother of Jerry_x000D_ Hearts of Three_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The White Silence_x000D_ The Son of the Wolf_x000D_ The Men of Forty Mile_x000D_ In a Far Country_x000D_ To the Man on the Trail_x000D_ The Priestly Prerogative_x000D_ The Wisdom of the Trail_x000D_ The Wife of a King_x000D_ An Odyssey of the North_x000D_ The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondike_x000D_ The God of His Fathers_x000D_ The Great Interrogation_x000D_ Which Make Men Remember_x000D_ Siwash_x000D_ The Man with the Gash_x000D_ Jan, the Unrepentant_x000D_ Grit of Women_x000D_ Where the Trail Forks_x000D_ A Daughter of the Aurora_x000D_ At the Rainbow's End_x000D_ The Scorn of Women_x000D_ Children of the Frost_x000D_ In the Forests of the North_x000D_ The Law of Life_x000D_ Nam-Bok the Unveracious_x000D_ The Master of Mystery_x000D_ The Sunlanders_x000D_ The Sickness of Lone Chief_x000D_ Keesh, the Son of Keesh_x000D_ The Death of Ligoun_x000D_ Li Wan, the Fair_x000D_ The League of the Old Men_x000D_ The Faith of Men & Other Stories_x000D_ A Relic of the Pliocene_x000D_ A Hyperborean Brew_x000D_ The Faith of Men_x000D_ Too Much Gold_x000D_ The One Thousand Dozen_x000D_ The Marriage of Lit-lit_x000D_ Bâtard_x000D_ The Story of Jees Uck_x000D_ Tales of the Fish Patrol_x000D_ White and Yellow_x000D_ The King of the Greeks_x000D_ A Raid on the Oyster Pirates_x000D_ The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen"_x000D_ Charley's Coup_x000D_ Demetrios Contos_x000D_ Yellow Handkerchief_x000D_ Lost Face_x000D_ South Sea Tales_x000D_ The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii_x000D_ Smoke Bellew_x000D_ The Red One_x000D_ On the Makaloa Mat_x000D_ Dutch Courage & Other Stories_x000D_ Memoirs_x000D_ The Road_x000D_ The Cruise of the Snark_x000D_ Through The Rapids on the Way to the Klondike_x000D_ From Dawson to the Sea_x000D_ Our Adventures in Tampico