Fifty years of fortitude : the maritime career of Captain Jotham Blaisdell of Kennebunk, Maine, 1810-1860 /
"Captain Jotham Blaisdell (ca. 1793-1874) of Kennebunk, Maine, spent fifty-five years in the North Atlantic trades. Like many coastal Maine boys, he went to sea at an early age, learning the fundamentals of what would become his life's work. After this apprenticeship, he spent thirty-four...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mystic, Conn. :
Mystic Seaport Museum,
1988.
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| Series: | American maritime library ;
v. 12. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description |
| Summary: | "Captain Jotham Blaisdell (ca. 1793-1874) of Kennebunk, Maine, spent fifty-five years in the North Atlantic trades. Like many coastal Maine boys, he went to sea at an early age, learning the fundamentals of what would become his life's work. After this apprenticeship, he spent thirty-four years in command of ships owned by the Lord family of Kennebunk ... To read Captain Blaisdell's correspondence with the far-distant owners of his vessesl, here skillfully woven into a narrative that illuminates his comments, is to witness the daily concerns of the nineteenth-century shipmaster."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 173 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0913372439 9780913372432 |