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Book Synopsis Shipbuilders of Essex by : Dana Adam Story
Download or read book Shipbuilders of Essex written by Dana Adam Story and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as the creators of New England's great fishing schooners, the shipbuilders of Essex, Massachusetts, have a 300-year history that is, as the subtitle of this impressive book attests, a chronicle of Yankee endeavor. This book documents in text, appendices, photos and other illustrations the rise of the trade from 1634 to its glory days in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and its decline in the first four decades of this century. Dana Story, author of Growing Up in a Shipyard, has a well-deserved reputation for thorough historical research and for the ease and wit of his writing. Here he brings these qualities to a book that is in large part his own family's history. His forebears settled in Essex in 1637 and began building vessels in 1813.
Book Synopsis Essex Shipbuilding by : Courtney Ellis Peckham
Download or read book Essex Shipbuilding written by Courtney Ellis Peckham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries, shipbuilding flourished in Essex, a small village wrapped around a shallow tidal estuary that flows into Ipswich Bay. From sturdy little Chebacco boats to the tough but graceful fishing schooners that plied the Grand Banks, Essex vessels became known throughout the maritime world as swift and strong fishermen, and Essex shipbuilding became synonymous with craftsmanship of the highest order. More than four thousand ships slid down the ways destined for ports such as Gloucester, Boston, and New York. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, the industry had vanished and this extraordinary chapter in American maritime history was closed. Essex Shipbuilding recalls an era when dozens of vessels in different stages of construction lined the Essex River and the shipyard gangs worked six days a week, year-round, in any weather. Featuring the photograph collection of Dana A. Story, Essex Shipbuilding illustrates the firms of A.D. Story and Tarr & James, who built the famous racing schooners Mayflower, Columbia, and Gertrude L. Thebaud, and the high-lining fishermen Elsie and Adventure. Essex Shipbuilding also depicts these vessels at sea-fishing, racing, or pursuing more unusual work, from Arctic exploration to naval service in both world wars to rumrunning during Prohibition.
Download or read book Frame-up! written by Dana Story and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shipbuilders of Essex by : Dana A. Story
Download or read book The Shipbuilders of Essex written by Dana A. Story and published by . This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Growing Up in a Shipyard by : Dana Story
Download or read book Growing Up in a Shipyard written by Dana Story and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Story is the last of many generations of Essex men to labor in the town's renowned shipyards. Having grown up in his father's shipyard, Story tried to carry on the trade after World War II, but by then wooden shipbuilding was an anachronism, and his yard failed in 1948. In this candid reminiscence, Dana Story captures the spicy character of a coastal New England town. With obvious fondness he brings to life the shipyard "gangs", men of long experience, proud and eccentric. This is an engaging account of a vanished segment of New England life.
Download or read book Frame Up! written by Dana Story and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frame Up!, by Essex native Dana Story, whose family is one of the oldest shipbuilding families in Essex, is a pleasurable collection of memories and narratives about a town that is bound to the sea not only by location, but by the vessels built by its inhabitants. Story's accounts of life, toil and lore among the shipyards of this small New England town, shed light on the ever-vanishing art of shipbuilding, which made Essex unrivaled.The history of the men, their skills and the boat launchings, which have slowly faded away with the artisans and vessels themselves, is brought back through the memories of a native son, the legendary Dana Story.
Download or read book Essex written by Dawn Robertson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essex is nestled on the Atlantic coast within beautifully preserved hills, forest, fields, and wetlandsbut the serene landscape belies the towns rich history. According to tradition, the first Essex boat was built in an attic around 1660. Eventually, this shipbuilding industry would create a thriving town as it developed into one of the largest producers of fishing schooners in the country. By its incorporation in 1819, Essex was a renowned community of fishing, farming, shipbuilding, and other industries. Over time, Essex became the birthplace of the fried clam, sent a native son to the baseball major leagues, acquired a Paul Revere church bell, and raised a barn that is now the oldest still in use in America. With a newly gathered collection of vintage images, Essex reveals a microcosm of American culture and growth, telling the story of leading patriots, entrepreneurs, Civil War heroes, and hardworking everyday citizens.
Book Synopsis Connecticut River Shipbuilding by : Wick Griswold
Download or read book Connecticut River Shipbuilding written by Wick Griswold and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of the lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Their accomplishments include building the first warship of the Connecticut navy and the world's first submarine. They also served as packet ship captains, navigators and skilled crew members who crossed the Atlantic. The Essex area was also home to dedicated craftsmen who produced some of the finest yachts ever built. Noted historians Wick Griswold and Ruth Major detail one village's important role in American maritime history.
Book Synopsis The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale by : Thomas Nickerson
Download or read book The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale written by Thomas Nickerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic. This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis The British Raid on Essex by : Jerry Roberts
Download or read book The British Raid on Essex written by Jerry Roberts and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American vessels, including six newly built privateers. It was the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has been virtually left out of the history books—the forgotten battle of the forgotten war. This new account from author and historian Jerry Roberts is the definitive overview of this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological finds. Lavish illustrations and detailed maps bring the battle to life.
Book Synopsis Connecticut River Shipbuilding by : Wick Griswold & Ruth Major
Download or read book Connecticut River Shipbuilding written by Wick Griswold & Ruth Major and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Noted historians ... detail one village's important role in American maritime history."--Back cover
Book Synopsis History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts by : Lloyd Vernon Briggs
Download or read book History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts written by Lloyd Vernon Briggs and published by Boston, Coburn brothers, printers. This book was released on 1889 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 32-gun Frigate Essex by : Portia A. Takakjian
Download or read book The 32-gun Frigate Essex written by Portia A. Takakjian and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the successful completion of the War of Independence, the American navy was disbanded, and it was not until the late 1790s that a regular naval force was reconstituted. Provoked by the need to protect American merchant shipping from the belligerent European nations and the piratical Barbary powers, Congress decided on a programme of frigate building, which included the 32-gun frigate Essex. Designed by William Hackett, Essex was a typical medium frigate of her time. Working from both US and British sources, the author has reconstructed many previously undetermined details of the ship and in passing has rehabilitated the reputation of the designer as one who was responsible for one of the best balanced of that generation's frigates.
Book Synopsis Essex by : Essex Bicentennial Committee
Download or read book Essex written by Essex Bicentennial Committee and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854 by : Paul H. Silverstone
Download or read book The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854 written by Paul H. Silverstone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunk. Names used before or after naval service are provided.
Book Synopsis Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex by : Owen Chase
Download or read book Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.
Download or read book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
