Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes

Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812

James Barnes

114 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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Give a ship an unlucky name, and it will last throughout the whole of her career. A sailor is proverbially superstitious, and he clings jealously to tradition. It is told that when the frigate Chesapeake was launched she stuck fast on the ways, an...

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