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The fishermen's own book, comprising the list of men and vessels lost from the port of Gloucester, Mass. From 1874 to April 1, 1882 and a table of los

The fishermen's own book, comprising the list of men and vessels lost from the port of Gloucester, Mass. From 1874 to April 1, 1882 and a table of los

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BoatingCriminologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935380017X
ISBN13: 9789353800178
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Gloucester's waterfront was built on courage and loss. The sea keeps its ledger. Compiled in the heart of 19th century Gloucester, The Fishermen's Own Book gathers the names, dates, and vessels behind the port's hardest reckonings, from a stark roll of Gloucester shipwreck casualties to a meticulously kept lost fishing vessels list spanning 1874 to April 1, 1882, with earlier tallies reaching back to 1830. Part memorial, part working handbook, it reads as both a maritime history reference and a fisheries statistics compendium: landings, fleets, and the practical realities of New England fishing ports set alongside human testimony. Between the tables and notices are fishermen survival stories, narrow escapes, and startling adventures, plus off-hand sketches and a lively sea ballads anthology that preserves the sound of the quay. Descriptions of fishing trips and notable fares sit beside the hard arithmetic of risk and reward. The result is a nautical folklore collection with the texture of everyday speech and the weight of American maritime disasters, invaluable to anyone tracing genealogy and local history or building serious maritime museum research. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. It belongs on the shelf beside port records and bibles. For casual readers, it offers vivid, episodic browsing; for classic-literature collectors, a rare documentary window into the lives and losses that shaped Gloucester and the wider Atlantic fishery.

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