Maritime History of the Merrimac: Shipbuilding

Cheney, Robert K.; Woodwell, Robert K.

Published by Newburyport Press Inc., Newburyport, 1964

About this Item

Hard cover, 8vo, in light blue cloth with titles in silver, map endpapers of Newburyport shipyards, frontispiece portrait of the Author, xiv, 386 pp., First edition signed by Author. Illustrated. CONDITION: Near Fine, with a little light rubbing. "No one has ever accumulated so much information on the shipbuilding of the region, the fishing fleets, the busy coasting industry, or the steamers and tugboats which were built there, or plied their smokey way to the head of navigation. Some of the most famous ships of the America's great days of sail were built in Newburyport" (from the Foreward). Early shipbuilding history from the area in the seventeenth-century is discussed. Details the famous Currier and Townsend Shipyard's speed-record-setting packet ship, "The Dreadnaught," traversing from New York to Liverpool in a mere nine days and thirteen hours in 1860. Other shipbuilders included a young Donald McKay, and George W. Jackman, Jr., spanning the days of clipper ships to steamers. A comprehensive, and indexed, text with background on the world travels of captains, ship's merchandise and crew from the lower Merrimack River to points across the world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maritime History of the Merrimac: Shipbuilding
• Publisher: Newburyport Press Inc., Newburyport
• Publication Date: 1964
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nautical
  • MASSACHUSETTS --Newburyport