Nautical Newburyport : a history of captains, clipper ships and the Coast Guard / Dyke Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrickson, Dyke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ships--Massachusetts--Newburyport--History.

Ships.

Newburyport (Mass.)--History.

Newburyport (Mass.).

Newburyport (Mass.)--Social life and customs.

United States. Coast Guard.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2017]

Summary:

Newburyport was once the most dangerous harbor on the East Coast and one of its most prosperous. Local captains and sailors led the nation to battle during the American Revolution and founded the U.S. Coast Guard. They sent vessels to Bombay, the gold rush and the farthest reaches of the world. Author Dyke Hendrickson explores the perfection of the clipper ship, the city's famous Federalist mansions and the bold adventures from the Age of Sail. Follow the men and women of Newburyport into battle, into gales and into fortune--or ruin.

Contents:

Introduction: the birth of a maritime community

Shipbuilding on the Merrimack

The perils of the sea

Tawdry times on the old waterfront

Crossing the Atlantic in 1760

Captains courageous: notes on bluewater skippers

A Newburyporter sails for the gold rush

Memories of a seaman who started as a child

A seaside girl remembers captains in the neighborhood

Now let us praise famous women

Women sail to Calcutta and Bombay on the Elcano, 1875-76

Captain's wife remembers maritime Newburyport

You needed luck if you went fishing

The Coast Guard got its start here

Age of sail is gone but the mansions remain.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140).

ISBN:

9781439660140

143966014X