The Story of Our Merchant Marine Its Period of Glory Its Prolonged Decadence a
The Story of Our Merchant Marine Its Period of Glory Its Prolonged Decadence a
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It is hardly too much to say that the nineteenth cen- tury was already well into its second quarter before there was a semblance of recognized law upon the high seas.
156 THE STORY OF OUR Pirates and buccaneers, privateers, and the naval ves- sels of the times that were little more than pirates, made the lot of the merchant sailor of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a precarious one. Wars were con- stant, declared on the flimsiest pretexts and with scant notice ; so that the sailor putt...ing out from port in a time of universal peace could feel no certainty that the first foreign vessel he met might not capture him as spoil of some war of which he had no knowledge. Accordingly, sailors learned to defend themselves, and the ship's armory was as necessary and vastly better stocked than the ship's medicine case. To point a carronade became as needful an accomplishment as to box the compass; and he was no A. B. Who did not know how to swing a cutlass.
Out of such conditions, and out of the wars which the Napoleonic plague forced upon the world, sprung the practise' of privateering; and while it is the purpose of this book to tell the story of the American merchant sailor only, it could not be complete without some ac- count, however brief, of the American privateersman.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is hardly too much to say that the nineteenth cen- tury was already well into its second quarter before there was a semblance of recognized law upon the high seas.
156 THE STORY OF OUR Pirates and buccaneers, privateers, and the naval ves- sels of the times that were little more than pirates, made the lot of the merchant sailor of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a precarious one. Wars were con- stant, declared on the flimsiest pretexts and with scant notice ; so that the sailor putt...ing out from port in a time of universal peace could feel no certainty that the first foreign vessel he met might not capture him as spoil of some war of which he had no knowledge. Accordingly, sailors learned to defend themselves, and the ship's armory was as necessary and vastly better stocked than the ship's medicine case. To point a carronade became as needful an accomplishment as to box the compass; and he was no A. B. Who did not know how to swing a cutlass.
Out of such conditions, and out of the wars which the Napoleonic plague forced upon the world, sprung the practise' of privateering; and while it is the purpose of this book to tell the story of the American merchant sailor only, it could not be complete without some ac- count, however brief, of the American privateersman.
What to read after The Story of Our Merchant Marine Its Period of Glory Its Prolonged Decadence a?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Willis J Willis John Abbot to read onlineMoreLess
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