From The Forecastle To The Cabin by Samuel Samuels
Title | From the Forecastle to the Cabin |
Author | Samuel Samuels |
Publisher | Unknown |
Release Date | 1887 |
Category | Sailors |
Total Pages | 308 |
ISBN | UCAL:$B557744 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The memoir of the man who according the Ralph Pain's introduction, "...ran away to sea at the tender age of eleven, was shanghaied by a Baltimore crimp, chased by West India pirates, sailed around the world in a haunted ship, was master on a Yankee quarterdeck at twenty-one, fought cannibals, and commanded the "Dreadnought" in seventy-eight voyages across the Atlantic and always brought her safely into port.