Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO

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From a print in the possession of the Lenox Library]

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE

by

JOHN R. SPEARS

Author of "Story of the New England Whalers," etc.

Illustrated

New York The Macmillan Company 1910 All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910, By The Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910.

Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. In the Beginning 1

II. Early Growth 22

III. Evolution of the Smuggler and the Pirate 40

IV. Before the War of the Revolution 59

V. Merchantmen in Battle Array 85

VI. Early Enterprise of the United States Merchant Marine 100

VII. French and Other Spoliations 119

VIII. The British Aggressions 132

IX. The Beginnings of Steam Navigation 150

X. Privateers, Pirates, and Slavers of the Nineteenth Century 177

XI. The Harvest of the Sea before the Civil War 197

XII. The Packet Lines and the Clippers 214

XIII. Deep-water Steamships--Part I 240

XIV. Deep-water Steamships--Part II 258

XV. The Critical Period 277

XVI. During a Half Century of Depression 298

ILLUSTRATIONS

South Street, New York; from Maiden Lane, 1834 _Frontispiece_

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An Early View of Charleston Harbor 38

Captain Kidd's House at Pearl and Hanover Streets, New
York, 1691 70

Custom House, Salem 100

Elias Hasket Derby 108

An Early Type of Clipper Ship: _Maria_, of New Bedford, built
1782 122

A Virginia Pilot-boat, with a Distant View of Cape Henry, at
the Entrance of the Chesapeake 148

Engines of the _Clermont_ 158

Clipper Ship _Syren_ 220

Captain Samuel Samuels 222

Clipper Ship _Witch of the Wave_ 232

Sailing of _Britannia_, February 3, 1844 254

Four-master _Dirigo_, First Steel Ship built in the United
States 298

Seven-masted Schooner _Thomas Lawson_ 312

A Modern Clipper Ship and a Modern Brig 318

Cunard S. S. _Lusitania_ 334

THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINE