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1) Queens of the western ocean: the story of America's mail and passenger sailing lines

Author

Cutler, Carl C

Pub. Date

[1961]

Physical Desc

xxi, 672 p. illus., ports., plans. 27 cm.

2) The old merchant marine: a chronicle of American ships and sailors

Author

Paine, Ralph D

Pub. Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

1 online resource (77 pages)

3) Pictorial history of American ships on the high seas and inland waters

Author

Durant, John

Pub. Date

[1953]

Physical Desc

viii, 312 p. (chiefly illus. (part col.) ports., maps) 29 cm.

4) American sail: a pictorial history

Author

Laing, Alexander Kinnan

Pub. Date

1961

Physical Desc

346p. illus.

5) United States merchant marine casualties of World War II

Author

Browning, Robert M

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

x, 409 p. : ill.

6) The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813: a history and comprehensive record of merchant marine losses

Author

Williams, Greg H

Pub. Date

c2009

Physical Desc

v, 536 p.

Description

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"During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, French privateers and cruisers legally and illegally took cargo from merchant vessels. Filed by descendants of anyone who had a financial interest, these claims give the approximation of American goods lost. Section I presents an index of losses, Section II presents court cases and Section III presents disposition of claims filed"--Provided by publisher.

7) Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage

Author

Gilbert, Bill

Pub. Date

c2000

Physical Desc

xiii, 129 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.

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It was a miracle worthy of the season. When Captain Leonard La Rue spied from his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, the throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames, he didn't hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam. Through the night and...