Download or read book Shipmasters of Cape Cod written by Henry Crocker Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipmasters of Cape Cod Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Henry Crocker Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cape Cod Shipmasters written by Theodore W. Swift and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter of the Cape Cod Ship Canal Co written by Cape Cod Ship Canal Co and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brewster Ship Masters written by Joseph Henry Sears and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Hero of Cape Cod written by Vincent Miles and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one extraordinary mariner, and of the struggle between the young United States and Britain for dominance of transatlantic trade. Born in a small village on Cape Cod in 1809, Asa Eldridge grew up to become one of the world's greatest shipmasters. Even today, he still holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a sailing ship. But this record is only part of his story, which includes voyages to numerous countries, command of Cornelius Vanderbilt's private yacht, an early move into steamships, and a mysterious end that eerily foreshadowed the Titanic disaster half a century later. In recounting Eldridge's fascinating career, Vincent Miles also tells a much broader story: of the rise of America's merchant navy to a dominant position over Britain's in the decades following the War of 1812, and of the government-subsidized British response that created the legendary Cunard Line. Along the way, he offers a guided tour of the maritime trade that shaped America, and a memorial to the courageous men who made it possible.
Download or read book They Built Clipper Ships in Their Back Yards written by Admont G. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small but engrossing volume tells the amazing story of Cape Cod's Shiverick shipyard. From 1850 to 1862 out of Sesuit Creek, which runs between Sesuit and Quivet Necks (on which the village of East Dennis is built) came five medium and three extreme clippers, owned, built, and sailed by Cape Cod men--a fleet of which the greatest merchant houses of the day, firms such as Glidden & Williams of Boston or Howland & Aspinwall of New York, could well be envious. The colorfully named clippers included Revenue, Hippogriffe, Belle of the West, Kit Carson, Wild Hunter, Webfoot, Chistopher Hall, and Ellen Sears. No two of these great ships were exactly alike, for their builders constantly strove for greater perfection, adding to the magical yet quite hard-headed amalgam that was the clipper ship. First published in 1963, it has proven itself a true Cape Cod classic.
Download or read book Cape Cod Masters of the Seas written by Joan Paine and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Shallows written by Eric Takakjian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Shallows tells the story of a quest to solve maritime cold-cases. The odyssey takes the reader along for a moment-by-moment look at the events surrounding the loss of more than twenty different ships, and includes the stories of discovering their wrecks and learning about the final hours of each of these ships.
Download or read book Ships Logs and Captains Diaries of Old Cape Cod written by Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwrecks on Cape Cod written by Isaac M. Small and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hardly know whether to call this a preface or part of the story, it seems rather too long for the former and too short for a chapter of the latter, but I may as well follow the general rule and call it a preface. Friends have often said to me, “Why don’t you write some stories concerning shipwrecks which have occurred on Cape Cod?” Perhaps one of the strongest reasons why I have not done so is because, to describe all of the sad disasters which have come under my observation during my more than half a century of service as Marine Reporting Agent, at Highland Light, Cape Cod, would make a book too bulky to be interesting, and a second reason has been the difficulty of selecting such instances as would be of the greatest interest to the general reader. But out of the hundreds of shipwrecks which have become a part of the folk lore and history of this storm beaten coast I have finally decided to tell something of the circumstances connected with the loss of life and property in a few of the more prominent cases. The descriptions herein written are only just “unvarnished tales,” couched in such language that even the children may understand, and in order that there may be a clear understanding of how I came to be in close touch with the events of which I write, it is perhaps necessary to state briefly a few facts concerning my life work here. So far back as 1853, the merchants of Boston, desiring to obtain rapid and frequent reports concerning the movements of their ships along the coast of Cape Cod, were instrumental in causing the construction of a telegraph line from Boston to the end of Cape Cod, and a station was established on the bluffs of the Cape at Highland Light, this station was equipped with signal flags, books and a powerful telescope, and an operator placed in charge, whose duty it was to watch the sea from daybreak until sunset, and so far as possible obtain the names of or a description of every passing ship. This information was immediately transmitted over the wires to the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, where it was at once spread upon their books for the information of their subscribers. When the boys in blue were marching away to southern battlefields at the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861, I began the work of “Marine Reporting Agent,” and now on the threshold of 1928, I am still watching the ships. A fair sized volume might be written concerning the changes which have taken place in fifty years, as to class of vessels and methods of transportation, but that is not what I started to write about. My duties begin as soon as it is light enough to distinguish the rig of a vessel two miles distant from the land, and my day’s work is finished when the sun sinks below the western horizon. Every half hour through every day of the year we stand ready to answer the call at the Boston office, and report to them by telegraph every item of marine intelligence which has come under our observation during the previous half hour. With our telescope we can, in clear weather, make out the names of vessels when four miles away. When a shipwreck occurs, either at night or during the day, we are expected to forward promptly to the city office every detail of the disaster. If the few stories herein told serve to interest our friends who tarry with us for a while in the summer, then the object of the writer will have been attained.
Download or read book Ships Logs and Captains Diaries of Old Cape Cod written by Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce (Hyannis, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Cape Cod Stories of Tragedy and Triumph written by Donald Wilding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod's outer beach--often referred to as the "Graveyard of Ships"--saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew's cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.
Download or read book Cape Cod Shipwrecks written by Theodore Parker Burbank and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Shipwrecks off Cape Cod So many ships have piled up on the hidden sand bars off the coast between Chatham and Provincetown that those fifty miles of sea have been called an "ocean graveyard" containing an estimated 3,500 shipwrecks including that of the Whydah Gally, the famed pirate ship of Black Sam Bellamy that went down with over 4.5 tons of gold, silver, jewels and other treasures off Marconi Beach. In fact, between Truro and Wellfleet alone, according to the U.S. Lifesaving Service, there had been more than 1,000 wrecks from 1850 until the Cape Cod Canal was opened in 1918. Ship Ashore! When a storm struck the Cape in the early days, no one was surprised to hear the alarm: "Ship ashore! All hands perishing!" The townspeople would turn out on the beach, but usually the surf was too high for them to attempt a rescue; and by the time the storm was over, there was usually no one alive to rescue. The First Recorded Wreck The first recorded wreck was the Sparrow-Hawk which ran aground at Orleans in 1626 after successfully the sailing more than 3,000 miles from England to Cape Cod. The 25 people aboard the tiny 29 ft craft were able to get ashore safely, and the ship was repaired. But, before it could set sail, the ship was sunk by another storm, buried in the sand, and wasn't seen for over two hundred years. In 1863, after storms had shifted the sands again, the skeleton of the Sparrow-Hawk reappeared briefly. So the ocean takes and gives back and takes again. (The ribs of the ship are now on display at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum). The stories of heroism, bravery, treachery, valor and sadness behind the scores of shipwrecks are chronicled here in graphic detail.
Download or read book East of the Sun West of the Moon written by William F. Odonnell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwrecks Pirates and Treasure on Cape Cod written by Theodore Parker Burbank and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 3,000 shipwrecks off its shores, the waters off Cape Cod have been referred to as the graveyard of the Atlantic.The only pirate treasure ship ever to be discovered with its treasure still aboard is located close to shore off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The slave ship “Whydah†sank in a storm in April of 1717.
Download or read book Charter of the Cape Cod Ship Canal Co written by Cape Cod Ship Canal Co and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
