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Title: Ships of the seven seas
Author: Hawthorne Daniel
Author of introduction, etc.: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustrator: Francis J. Rigney
Release date: February 2, 2024 [eBook #72859]
Language: English
Original publication: Garden City: Doubleday, Page & company, 1925
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SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
The Santa Maria, the Niña and the Pinta
The most famous ships that ever sailed the seas
The Niña, shown in the foreground, was the smallest of the three, but in her Columbus returned to Spain after the Santa Maria was wrecked, and the captain of the Pinta seemed tempted to prove unfaithful.
SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
BY HAWTHORNE DANIEL
AUTHOR
OF “IN THE FAVOUR OF THE KING”
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT
DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS J. RIGNEY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y
First Edition
TO NELLE R. DANIEL
MY WIFE
WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE THIS BOOK WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN BEGUN, BUT MOST CERTAINLY WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
FOREWORD
In gathering material for a book of this kind one’s sources of information are likely to be so numerous and so diverse as to defy classification. Some of the information I have gotten first hand on ships in which I have served or voyaged. Much more of it has been picked up from countless scattered sources during twenty years or more in which ships have been my hobby. More still, however, has been consciously taken from books on ships and shipping that I have gathered together or referred to during the time I spent actually in preparing the manuscript.
Those books to which I have most often referred, and to the authors and publishers of which I am particularly indebted, are as follows:
“Ancient and Modern Ships,” by Sir G. C. V. Holmes
“The Clipper Ship Era,” by Arthur H. Clark
“Dictionary of Sea Terms,” by A. Ansted
“Elements of Navigation,” by W. J. Henderson, A. M.
“The Frigate Constitution, ” by Ira N Hollis
“Lightships and Lighthouses,” by F A Talbot
“The Lookout Man,” by David W Bone
“Mercantile Marine,” by E Keble Chatterton
“Modern Seamanship,” by Austin M Knight
“Sailing Ships and Their Story,” by E Keble Chatterton
In addition to these I have received much assistance from the New York Public Library, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U. S. Congressional Library, the Marine Museum at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and a number of friends, who, knowing of my interest in ships, have brought me some of the most interesting of the facts that I have used.
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INTRODUCTION
I remember well being thrilled as a boy by the tales of various members of my family who had been engaged in the old “China Trade” and in the operation of clipper ships and in whaling. These stories related to a bygone age—a day when the American flag was seen in every part of the globe.
Even in my own boyhood America had no merchant marine except for the coasting trade and the freighters upon the Great Lakes. American seamen had ceased to exist and the calling of an officer in the Merchant Marine was no longer one that offered an attractive career to the American boy. It is unnecessary here to go into the reasons for the decline and fall of our nation upon the sea. The Civil War, the introduction of steam propulsion, the development of the West, and in addition a great number of economic changes, were some of the causes of the disappearance of the American flag from the Seven Seas.
It was not until the outbreak of the World War that American business men as a whole began to think seriously of the possibility of reviving American shipping; it was not until 1916 that the Congress took definite action to aid with constructive legislation; it was not until our own country entered into the war that large results appeared. In the past few years there has been an extraordinary revival of interest in everything that pertains to the sea—the novels of Melville written three quarters of a century ago have been revived in dozens of editions and the sea stories of Conrad are among the best sellers. In the same way, old books, old engravings, and crude old lithographs and woodcuts relating to almost every form of ships and shipping have been sought out and prized by an ever-growing circle of enthusiasts. This is not a passing fancy; there is something more solid behind it. I hope I am right in believing that the people of the United States are again turning their faces to the sea. Over the sea our ancestors or we ourselves have all come. We have filled the
vacant spaces from the original colonies on the Atlantic Coast to the new and splendid civilization of the Pacific. No longer can we say “America is sufficient for us; our thought and lives must stay at home.” We are part of the world now, very dependent on the rest of the peoples of the world for our own progress, and our own success, and even for our own safety. This is shown by the fact that every school and every college throughout the land is, in its teaching, paying more and more attention to the affairs of mankind beyond our own borders. The study of languages, the study of geography, the study of economics, of international laws—all receive increased attention.
Mr. Hawthorne Daniel has rendered a conspicuous service in writing a book which can be understood and appreciated by the average citizen. Most of us are just “average citizens” and whether we live a thousand miles from the nearest ocean or not, whether we have ever smelled salt water or not, it will be a good thing for us to have some knowledge of the great epic of ships and the men who have made them and sailed them.
F D. R
H P , N. Y., June 4, 1924
SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
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