Download or read book One Sailor s Yarns written by B. M. Commons and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most sailors yarns this collection varies from the totally fictitious products of the author's fervid imagination, through the partly fictitious yarns based on events experienced or heard of, up to the almost literal narratives of actual events and real letters where only some of the names have been changed and perhaps memories have mellowed with time. See if you can pick which is which but, be careful, some of the weirdest ones are true.
Download or read book One Sailors Yarns written by B. M. Commons and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most sailors yarns this collection varies from the totally fictitious products of the author's fervid imagination, through the partly fictitious yarns based on events experienced or heard of, up to the almost literal narratives of actual events and real letters where only some of the names have been changed and perhaps memories have mellowed with time. See if you can pick which is which but, be careful, some of the weirdest ones are true.
Download or read book Sailors Life and Sailors Yarns written by John Codman and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sailor s Yarn written by Gregory Goetterman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sailor's Yarn is a warm adventure set on the Great Lakes in the early twentieth century. There are great storms, love stories, and pirates. It is all wrapped in the study of a man coming to faith. You will meet the sultan, a larger-than-life character. There is a one-armed sailor, a cat named Habebe, a five-star chef, and their loves. Robert Loomis is the captain that leads his crew from one exciting adventure to the next. There is a city burning and a battle on Lake Erie. The entire story is buried in a layer of humor that will keep you snickering. It culminates in one of the worst storms recorded on the Great Lakes, the "White Water Fury". Come back to a simpler time where people took the time to live, laugh, and love. Feel the power of the storm.
Download or read book An Old Sailor s Yarn written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Old Sailor s Yarns written by Nathaniel Ames and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Old Sailor s Yarn written by H. Clarkson Birch and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Old Sailor s Yarns written by N. Ames and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. Ames. Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautical Reminiscences" in the New England Magazine, says, no author ever stopped at the second book; and he very gravely proceeds to recommend that my number three should savor more of the style of Goldsmith or Washington Irving. I should have no objection whatever to writing like either of these distinguished authors, if I could; but as the case is, I must be content to write as well as I can. The whole article in Mr. B's magazine bore no faint resemblance to a dose of calomel and jalap, administered in a table-spoonful of molasses, in which the sweet and the nauseous are so equally balanced, that the patient is in doubt whether to spit or to swallow. I was, however, exceedingly flattered with the notice bestowed upon me by this literary cynic, as he was never before known to speak well, even moderately, of any author, except natives of Boston, or professors in Harvard University. "Morton" is founded upon an old tradition, now forgotten, but well known when I first went to sea, of the exploits of some of our adventurous and somewhat lawless traders in the Pacific. A number of the crew of one of these smuggling vessels were taken in the act, and, after a hasty trial, ordered to be sent to the mines. The route to their place of condemnation and hopeless confinement lay near the coast. A large party of seamen landed from two or three ships that were in the neighborhood, waylaid the military escort, knocked most of them on the head, rescued the prisoners, and got safe off without loss. The story says nothing of female influence or assistance, but knowing it to be morally impossible to get through a story without the assistance of a lady, I pressed one into the service, and took other liberties with the original, till it became what peradventure the reader will find it. Many stories are told of the skirmishes, or as sailors call them, "scrammidges," between our "free-traders" and the guarda-costas in different parts of the Pacific. In particular, the ship D----, of Boston, is said to have had a "regular-built fight" with a guarda-costa of forty-four guns, that retired from the action so miserably mauled, that it is doubtful to this day whether she ever found her way back into port. An old sea-dog who was on board the D----, furnished me with many details of the proceedings of our merchantmen on the coasts of California, and Mexico, some thirty years since, but most of them have escaped my memory.
Download or read book An Old Sailor s Yarns written by Roland Folger Coffin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union Jacks written by Michael J. Bennett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
Download or read book The Kedge Anchor Or Young Sailors Assistant written by William N. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kedge anchor Or Young Sailor s Assistant written by William N. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Few Became the Proud written by Heather Venable and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
Download or read book The Kedge Anchor Or Young Sailors Assistant Appertaining to the Practical Evolutions of Modern Seamanship Third Edition Improved and Enlarged Etc With Plates written by William N. BRADY and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ultimate World War Two Trivia Book Unbelievable Facts Extraordinary Accounts and Tall Tales from the Second World War written by M. J. Trow and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War ended over seventy-five years ago and yet it holds a lasting fascination for millions. Most school children worldwide have studied it but it is unlikely that they would have learned any of the fascinating facts to be found in The Ultimate World War Two Trivia Book. Funny, heart-breaking and downright borderline unbelievable, the snippets in this book are perfect for dropping into conversations to amaze and amuse your friends. You might also find yourself becoming the king or queen of the pub trivia quiz when you have knowledge of Winkie the Pigeon, the Battle of the Tennis Court and the Bee Bombs of Prester John. One thing to be careful of - never, ever lend this book to anyone; it is totally addictive and you will never see it again! Many books of trivia push the envelope and the facts inside can't be trusted. This is not something to worry about with The Ultimate World War Two Trivia Book because it comes from the pens of Richard Denham (Robin Hood: English Outlaw and Arthur: Shadow of a God) and M. J. Trow (The Black Book and Enemies of the State). Just because a fact sounds unlikely doesn't mean it isn't true and you can amaze your friends and colleagues as well as clean up at the Dog and Duck by memorizing absolutely any of these facts, presented in short snippets for either devouring all at once or for browsing in the loo. Complete with a whistle-stop tour of the causes, course and consequences of the war by M. J. Trow who, to quote a recent reviewer could 'make a shopping list interesting', this book is a quick way to learn more than you ever thought there was to know about the weird and wonderful side of World War Two.
Download or read book The Man at the Wheel Or Yarn spinning written by William Stephens HAYWARD and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
