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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barnes, William Morris, 1850- When ships were ships and not tin pots. New York, A. & C. Boni, ©1930 (OCoLC)1028116456 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Morris Barnes; Hilda Renbold Wortman |
OCLC Number: | 1821230 |
Notes: | Title on 2 leaves. "Illustrations by Francis Shields." |
Description: | xiv, 466 pages illustrations (including portrait) 23 cm |
Contents: | The makings of a sailor -- Old hairpins -- Shipped as boy -- Apprenticeship -- Miranda -- Running for market -- Jane -- Sable Island ponies -- Yessow fever -- The Rival -- The loss of Captain Doderidge -- The Elma -- Adrift in a horse and carriage -- Jailed in Aracaju -- Calderbank -- Sailors and their girls -- Blue bread and sawdust -- Victor -- Courtship -- Gods and marriage -- Taken for dead -- Maida -- Caught up in the ice -- Maida -- Ghosts and dreams -- W.M. Barnes, groceries and provisions -- Dismasted -- Feadore -- Captain Wolgar orders his own funeral -- Given up for dead -- Silver Sea -- Shanghai-ing -- Under jury masts -- Gratia -- Like a snake walks -- Corinne -- Wildcat Martin and Mort. Murphy, bully of Riverhead -- A drop too much -- Parajero -- A split chin -- Plymouth -- Breakers under the lee -- Vidonia -- End of sailing ship days -- Seasick passengers and mules -- S.S. Korona -- Burial of the negro parson -- S.S. Korona -- On His Majesty's service -- 1914 -- Three day and three nights adrift -- Saxonian -- Whatever she was, I love her still -- Reclassed -- 1924 -- After eighty years -- And now. |
Responsibility: | edited by Hilda Renbold Wortman. |
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