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Excerpt from Salt Seas and SailormenThe neatly dressed and rather pretty stenographer desisted from her typewriting and listened to the conversation between old John Lovell and Billy Spencer, skipper of the Boston fishing schooner, Alfarata. She couldn't help listening. Outside the glass-partitioned private office the dialogue was audible - too interestingly audible for Miss Comstock to carry on her work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

Excerpt from Blue Water: A Tale of the Deep Sea FishermenIn my Uncle Jerry's coat pocket. That's stealin', Shorty! Murmured the other, with an ominous shake of his tousled head.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wo...

Excerpt from The Viking Blood: A Story of SeafaringCaptain mckenzie received the news of his son's ar rival into the world just as his ship was leaving the coaling station at Cape Verde Islands, but his wife's suggestion of Percival caused him to hold the ship to an anchor while he dashed off a letter protesting against the tacking of such a namby-pamhy name on to a son of his. 'donald' is the name I have set my heart on, Janet, and I won't ha...

Excerpt from Doughnut Robbin's Bet Written for the Stamford Foundry CoIt was a wild night, cold, blowing hard, but clear. Just the kind of weather for making a grand shoot for home, and the men, as they lazied the evening away in their bunks, lis tened with keen appreciation to the muttering roar of the bow wave careering past them. With only the scant thickness of the planking between them and it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...

Excerpt from Record of Canadian Shipping: A List of Square-Rigged Vessels, Mainly 500 Tons and Over, Built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America From the Year 1786 to 1920A Amherst, Nova Scotia. Town, 8000 population, at extreme head of the Bay of Fundy and Chignecto Bay, Ships were built at the following places in the vicinity Wallace, Maccan, Pugwash, Port Elgin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

Excerpt from Record of Canadian Shipping: A List of Square-Rigged Vessels, Mainly 500 Tons and Over, Built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America From the Year 1786 to 1920A Amherst, Nova Scotia. Town, 8000 population, at extreme head of the Bay of Fundy and Chignecto Bay, Ships were built at the following places in the vicinity Wallace, Maccan, Pugwash, Port Elgin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

Excerpt from The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing FleetsWinslow looked up from the chart with just a trace of anxiety in his clean-cut face. It is the skipper aboard a fishing vessel who does all the worrying, not the men, and fog gives him more concern than the wildest winds that blow. Closing the drawer he pulled on his oilskins and after a glance at the barometer hovering on the thirty, went upon deck. Pacing the quarter, a shado...

Excerpt from The Shack Locker: Yarns of the Deep Sea Fishing FleetsWinslow looked up from the chart with just a trace of anxiety in his clean-cut face. It is the skipper aboard a fishing vessel who does all the worrying, not the men, and fog gives him more concern than the wildest winds that blow. Closing the drawer he pulled on his oilskins and after a glance at the barometer hovering on the thirty, went upon deck. Pacing the quarter, a shado...

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Excerpt from The Viking Blood: A Story of Seafaring He was christened Donald Pereival McKenzie, but his mother preferred to call him Pereival. The father, however insisted on the "Donald" and demanded that it be given priority over whatever appellation the mother might desire to add to the rare old Highland surname of McKenzie. Captain McKenzie received the news of his son's arrival into the world just as his ship was leaving the coaling sta...

Excerpt from Blue Water: A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen The broad waters of the Bay of Fundy shimmered as a vast steel-blue expanse in the glare of the hot June sun and merged into the azure of the cloudless sky with but a streak of faint mistiness at the horizon. Apparently oblivious of the heat and the exertion, two barefooted boys ran down the dusty Bay Shore road and threw themselves upon a patch of bush-shaded grass fringing the highwa...

Excerpt from Salt Seas and Sailormen The neatly dressed and rather pretty stenographer desisted from her typewriting and listened to the conversation between old John Lovell and Billy Spencer, skipper of the Boston fishing schooner, Alfarata. She couldn't help listening. Outside the glass-partitioned private office the dialogue was audible - too interestingly audible for Miss Comstock to carry on her work. "Sail carrying don't pay the vessel...

Excerpt from Doughnut Robbin's Bet Written for the Stamford Foundry Co It was a wild night, cold, blowing hard, but clear. Just the kind of weather for making a grand shoot for home, and the men, as they lazied the evening away in their bunks, lis tened with keen appreciation to the muttering roar of the bow wave careering past them. With only the scant thickness of the planking between them and it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publi...

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