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The Destroyer

The Destroyer

Scott, J. Randolf

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1974356744
ISBN13: 9781974356744
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 3 2017
Pages: 396
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The biography of Captain Rupert Blackand his incredible iron ship 'The Destroyer', driven by steam, and built in 1798 in Sunderland. Although he was not a qualified engineer, he had the ability to combine the ideas and inventions of othersinto a whole new concept, and to deviseways of building his ship with the primitive tools and materials of the time. He was an ardent and active Slave Trade Abolitionist and used his ship to capture slave ships and free the slaves, in order to hasten thedemise of the Atlantic slave trade. This is afirst hand account as recorded by the FirstOfficer, Commander James White as told tomy grandfather

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