CHAPTER III EVOLUTION OF THE SMUGGLER AND THE PIRATE CHAPTER IV BEFORE THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION CHAPTER V MERCHANTMEN IN BATTLE ARRAY CHAPTER VI EARLY ENTERPRISE OF THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE CHAPTER VII FRENCH AND OTHER SPOLIATIONS CHAPTER VIII THE BRITISH AGGRESSIONS CHAPTER IX THE BEGINNINGS OF STEAM NAVIGATION CHAPTER X PRIVATEERS, PIRATES, AND SLAVERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER XI THE HARVEST OF THE SEA BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR CHAPTER XII THE PACKET LINES AND THE CLIPPERS CHAPTER XIII DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS PART I CHAPTER XIV DEEP-WATER STEAMSHIPS PART II CHAPTER XV THE CRITICAL PERIOD CHAPTER XVI DURING A HALF CENTURY OF DEPRESSION Title: The Story of the American Merchant Marine Author: John Randolph Spears Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel |
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THE STORY OF THE
AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
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.