# Sea yarns

Author: Taylor, Joshua N. (Joshua Nickerson), 1841-1928

Genre: Ship captains -- Massachusetts -- Biography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74657

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sea+yarns+Taylor&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The golden age of the American Merchant Marine has gone and the old-time ships have passed away. Their bones lie on the oceans bottom, on foreign reefs of islands far away, on the rocky ledges off Cape Horn, or are serving an inglorious fate as coal barges. In our great Civil War many were destroyed by the “Alabama” or other privateers. Their old-time commanders and owners are also gone from the stage of action. But if you will travel down to old Cape Cod you will still find a few of them left, the neat, clean, white houses, giving proof of the fact that they are yet “on deck,” and keeping things “shipshape.” The early training of these men was, for the most part, received on the fisherme...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sea-yarns-74657/chapters/6/index.md)