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Forty Years Master : A Life in Sail and Steam / Daniel O. Killman ; edited and annotated by John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr. ; compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison ; with an introduction by Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Killman, Daniel O., 1860-1936, author.
- Series:
- Marine, maritime, and coastal books.
- Marine, maritime, and coastal books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailing ships--United States--History--19th century.
- Sailing ships.
- Steamboats--United States--History--19th century.
- Steamboats.
- Ship captains--United States--Biography.
- Ship captains.
- Peru--Description and travel.
- Peru.
- Pacific Area--Description and travel.
- Pacific Area.
- Pacific Coast (North America)--Description and travel.
- Pacific Coast (North America).
- Killman, Daniel O., 1860-1936--Travel.
- Killman, Daniel O.
- Killman, Daniel O., 1860-1936.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During Daniel O. Killman's more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, all the while remaining in impeccable standing with the owners of his vessels. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels in the Pacific is chronicled in Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam. Edited and annotated nearly forty years after Killman's death by prominent Pacific Coast maritime historians John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr., Killman's memoir has been compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison from her father's papers. Now with an introduction by maritime scholar Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull, Killman's rollicking narrative of storms, surly mates, bustling ports, and the business of navigating the high seas will entertain and inform scholars, students, and general readers interested in nautical and maritime history, late nineteenth-early twentieth century trade and commerce, and West Coast/trans-Pacific maritime history..
- Contents:
- Introduction / Brian J. Rouleau
- Early life
- From third mate to first mate
- Twice around Cape Horn
- Master in steam and sail
- Commanding the Kitsap
- The wreck of the Julia H. Ray
- Whalers in the Arctic
- Alaska and the salmon trade
- A married man
- Trouble on the Yangtze
- A court case
- To the Klondike for gold
- San Francisco earthquake, Yokohama typhoon
- The Peruvian oilfields
- Hurricane in the tropics
- War in Europe
- Arrested for murder
- A new owner for the H. K. Hall
- A run to Japan in a shipping board steamer
- A lost rudder
- Carrying coal to Peru
- An auto accident
- A Finnish sailor bests five Peruvian police
- Saving the charter of the Ella A.
- The last voyage of the schooner Ella A.
- Bound for home
- Afterword / David Hull
- Notes
- Glossary of nautical terms.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-381-1
- OCLC:
- 949033113
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