# The ships and sailors of old Salem

Author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye, 1871-1925

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73759

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+ships+and+sailors+of+old+Salem+Paine&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

American ships and sailors have almost vanished from the seas that lie beyond their own coasts. The twentieth century has forgotten the era when Yankee topsails, like flying clouds, flecked every ocean, when tall spars forested every Atlantic port from Portland to Charleston, and when the American spirit of adventurous enterprise and rivalry was in its finest flower on the decks of our merchant squadrons. The last great chapter of the nation’s life on blue water was written in the days of the matchless clippers which swept round the Horn to San Francisco or fled homeward from the Orient in the van of the tea fleets.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ships-and-sailors-of-old-salem-73759/chapters/8/index.md)