My Life at Sea
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Excerpt from My Life at Sea: Being a Yarn Loosely Spun for the Purpose of Holding Together Certain Reminiscences of the Transition Period From Sail to Steam in the British Mercantile Marine, 1863-1894 My good sailor Mend Captain Crutchley has asked me to -write a foreword to his autobiography. It is a pleasure to comply. The author ban his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect specimens of naval architecture built in Aberdeen for the China tea trade. Captain Crutchley tells of the hardships of the sea. Sc gives stirring descriptions of the performances of the ships in which he sailed. His narrative may perhaps be briefly supplemented. Sir George Holmes, in his book on ancient and modem ships, quotes many examples of record passages. In 1851, the Nightingale, in a race from Shanghai to Deal, ran on one occasion 336 knots in twenty-four hours. In the same year the Flying Cloud, in a voyage from New York to San Francisco, ran 427 knots in one day. The Thermopyæ, 886 tons register, built by Messrs. Steel, of Greenock, sailed Sh knots in twenty-four hours. The Aberdeen clippers of the ´sixties did marvellous work. Under sail, the Ariel, Taeping and Serica started together from Foochow on May 80, 1866. They met off the Lizard on September 6; and on the same day the Taeping arrived in the East India Dock at 9.43 p.m., and the Ariel at 10.15 p.m. - a difference of half-an-hour after racing for over three months on end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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