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For nearly a century members of the Sewall family built and managed a fleet of more than one hundred merchant vessels, mostly stout deepwater square-riggers. No family has been more intimately associated with the history of the city of Bath, then among the most productive shipbuilding communities of any size in the world. Despite a veneer of old-fashioned formalized civility, international shipping in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a highly competitive, low-margin, and often cut-throat business. While the Sewalls' shrewd responses to market changes make a fascinating story, the surviving correspondence from their captains offers adventure of another kind. Sewall captains were required to make regular reports to the Sewall office, and this correspondence is a treasure-trove of stories about the voyages of Sewall ships

Book details

• Full title: Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships
• Author: W. H. Bunting
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 496
• EAN: 9780884483151
• ISBN: 0884483150
• ID: 11568580
• Publisher: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL
• Weight: 1568 g
• Dimensions: 259 × 187 × 45 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2009

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