From Forecastle to Cabin (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the autobiography of an American who ran away to sea at the age of 11 and charts his rise from the lowliest seaman (berthed under the forecastle) to the command of his own ship and the occupation of the luxurious after cabin. In the course of an...
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This is the autobiography of an American who ran away to sea at the age of 11 and charts his rise from the lowliest seaman (berthed under the forecastle) to the command of his own ship and the occupation of the luxurious after cabin. In the course of an action-packed career spanning half a century, he experienced almost all of the vicissitudes of life in the nineteenth-century merchant service: storm and shipwreck, famine and disease, press-gangs and desertion, piracy, violence and mutiny this last, at different times, as both mutineer and victim. Like many a sailor he was often in more danger ashore than afloat, but many of his adventures make excellent stories not least his romantic, but foolhardy rescue of a Christian woman from the harem in Constantinople. In this case the story did not quite follow the script, as she married his accomplice in the rescue. Samuels is best known for his later career, as captain of the packet ship Dreadnought, a ship built especially for him and under his direction. Known as The Wild Boat of the Atlantic in the 1850s this ship was reckoned the fastest vessel on the New YorkLiverpool service, and regularly beat even the steamers on this route. This success was largely down to Samuels hard-driving style as master, and much of the latter part of the book is taken up with the resulting crew troubles, culminating in a full-blown mutiny that he put down with characteristic forcefulness.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Captain Samuel Samuels
- 2012, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Seaforth Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1783468777
- ISBN-13: 9781783468775
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2012
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