item: #1 of 12
          id: 15648
      author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
       title: American Merchant Ships and Sailors
        date: None
       words: 111157
      flesch: 65
     summary: An illustration of the fashion in which superior facilities at one end of a great line of travel compel improvements all along the line is afforded by the fact that since the canal at the Soo has been deepened so as to take vessels of twenty-one feet draught with practically no limit upon their length, the cry has gone up among shippers and vessel men for a twenty-foot channel from Duluth to the sea. Some buy great British ships, own and manage them, even although the laws of the United States compel the flying of a foreign flag.
    keywords: american; arctic; banks; boat; boston; british; building; business; captain; cargo; carrying; century; coast; course; craft; crew; cut; days; death; deck; end; enemy; england; english; expedition; fact; feet; fish; fishing; french; good; government; great; greely; half; history; home; ice; illustration; industry; island; lake; life; light; line; little; man; marine; men; merchant; miles; mississippi; nation; navigation; navy; new; new england; new york; north; ocean; orleans; people; pilot; place; point; port; privateers; river; sailors; schooner; sea; seas; second; service; set; ship; shipping; shore; slaves; states; steam; steel; story; time; tons; trade; traffic; united; vessels; voyage; war; water; way; whale; work; world; years
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 20520
      author: Woodcock, Henry
       title: The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
        date: None
       words: 45911
      flesch: 77
     summary: Mr. John Ellerthorpe, Kingston-upon-Hull. Sir,--I have known Mr. John Ellerthorpe as an active, energetic, Christian man, for upwards of eighteen years, and during the past six years he has been under my immediate control.
    keywords: board; boat; boy; captain; day; dock; drowning; ellerthorpe; father; fellow; following; friend; god; good; great; half; hero; hessle; house; hull; humane; humber; john; life; man; men; night; people; persons; saving; shall; sidenote; sir; society; thought; time; water; way; woman; years; young
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 21717
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Battles with the Sea
        date: None
       words: 24395
      flesch: 77
     summary: Last year (1882) twenty-three vessels were thus saved by lifeboat crews. Let its self-emptying and buoyant qualities be ever so good, you have only to upset it to render it no better than any other boat;--indeed, in a sense, it is worse than other boats, because it leads men to face danger which they would not dare to encounter in an ordinary boat.
    keywords: boat; coast; crew; gale; institution; lifeboat; lives; men; night; pounds; rocket; sands; sea; self; ship; shore; steamer; time; vessel; water; work; wreck; year
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 21915
      author: Cook, James
       title: Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting of the Currents, and Flowing of the Tides, &c., from an Actual Survey, Taken by Order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, &c.
        date: None
       words: 8905
      flesch: 80
     summary: by W. a quarter W. two Leagues and a half from St. _Jaques_ Island, NNE. This Harbour, wherein is 6 Fathom Water, lies near 2 Miles to the E. ward of _Long Island Harbour_, is also in _Long-Island_; it will only admit very small Vessels, by reason the Channel going in is very narrow.
    keywords: bay; fathom; harbour; head; island; point; sidenote; water
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 27322
      author: Hillary, William, Sir
       title: An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)
        date: None
       words: 12213
      flesch: 49
     summary: In the nineteenth century, surrounded by every improvement and institution which the benevolent can suggest, or the art of man accomplish for the mitigation or prevention of human ills, will it for a moment be capable of belief, that there does not, in all our great and generous land, exist one National Institution which has for its direct object the rescue of human life from shipwreck? Honoured, as this Institution has been, by the high patronage of the King, and of his illustrious family--constituted a Royal Institution by his Majesty's gracious command--sanctioned by many of the most distinguished characters in the church and state, and sustained by the bounty of a generous nation--it is not for me to have the presumption to offer my acknowledgements, for that support which the cause of our shipwrecked fellow-creatures has obtained from the sovereign and the people of this great country.
    keywords: cause; committee; esq; institution; john; life; lives; m.p; means; objects; preservation; rescue; shipwreck; vessels; william
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 27642
      author: Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
       title: Lectures in Navigation
        date: None
       words: 45033
      flesch: 81
     summary: | | | 189. | 149.1 | =========================================================== Lat. left. Dep. | D. Lo. ----------------------------------------------- N40° E | 138.5 | 106.1 | 89 | 105 =============================================== Lat.
    keywords: = =; a.m.; altitude; compass; course; difference; distance; earth; east; latitude; line; log; longitude; meridian; method; noon; north; note; point; position; ship; sight; star; sun; time; | |; ° e; ° w; ° |
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 39415
      author: Great Britain. Court to investigate loss of steamship "Titanic"
       title: Loss of the Steamship "Titanic"
        date: None
       words: 50786
      flesch: 72
     summary: | boats to be | readily | boats required | placed under| available | by | davits. | ship.
    keywords: accommodation; board; boat deck; boats; boiler; c |; class |; committee; e |; end; feet; forward; ice; life; m. |; number; passengers; position |; rules; ship |; tight; time; trade; vessel; w. |; water; | +; | casing; | collision; | deck; | engine; | mount; | stewards; | titanic; | |; | |room
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 40958
      author: Dana, Richard Henry
       title: The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service
        date: None
       words: 91902
      flesch: 87
     summary: In other vessels, 156. An old vessel fitted with shears, &c., and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vessels.
    keywords: aft; anchor; block; board; boom; brace; crew; cross; deck; duty; end; fore; forward; haul; head; helm; jib; lee; line; main; master; mate; port; rigging; rope; round; royal; sail; seaman; second; set; ship; tack; time; topgallant; topmast; topsail; vessel; wages; watch; way; weather; wind; work; yard
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 42415
      author: Gilmore, John
       title: Storm Warriors; or, Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
        date: None
       words: 99379
      flesch: 67
     summary: He suggested that such boats should be protected by bands of cork round their gunwales, that they should be rendered buoyant by the use of air-cases, especially at the bow and stern, and that they should be ballasted by an iron keel. Parents, wives, children--what a group they would seem if they could be pictured watching the saved ones return; what words, and looks, and tears of thanks where feelings are too deep for words, for the Storm Warriors, and for the life-boat cause, and for the generous English people who placed such boats at the disposal of such brave hearts and strong hands--of men ready to dare all and to do all that men can do to rescue the perishing from death.
    keywords: anchor; board; boat; boat cause; boat crew; boat institution; boat men; boat work; brig; cable; captain; crew; danger; death; gale; good; half; head; high; hold; life; life boat; light; little; look; man; moment; pier; ramsgate; ready; rescue; round; rush; sands; sea; seas; ship; steamer; storm; surf; tide; time; vessel; water; waves; way; wind; wreck
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 44206
      author: Robinson, John
       title: Old-Time Nautical Instruments
        date: None
       words: 4432
      flesch: 66
     summary: Using the sextent or Hadley quadrant the observer stands facing the sun, but old Hadley quadrants were made with a back sight so that they could be used like the Davis quadrant, thus making two independent observations the average of which would ensure greater accuracy. Mr. George Francis Dow has searched the early probate records of Essex County coast towns between 1634 and 1680, a period of nearly fifty years, and finds but thirteen references to nautical instruments in inventories and wills.
    keywords: century; davis; inches; instruments; navigation; quadrant; salem; sea; staff; use
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 45157
      author: Forwood, William Bower, Sir
       title: Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920
        date: None
       words: 27801
      flesch: 67
     summary: Nature has practically closed the Rock Channel and the old Victoria Channel, and concentrated her forces and opened up the Queen's Channel with over 20 feet of water at low tide in the dredged cut at the Bar, thus making the port open for ordinary vessels during twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and making Liverpool the great port she is--the only deep water port on the West Coast capable of taking such great ships as the Aquitania and Olympic. Mr. Inman's policy was to cultivate the emigration trade, which had hitherto been carried by sailing ships; in this he was very successful, and the Inman Line, which existed for nearly forty years, will be remembered as containing some very fine and fast ships.
    keywords: american; atlantic; british; channel; chapter; company; days; engine; good; illustration; line; liverpool; man; new; port; position; power; sailing; sand; sea; ship; shipowners; shipping; sir; speed; steamers; submarine; time; tonnage; tons; trade; vessels; war; water; work; years
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 4673
      author: Knights, Arthur E.
       title: Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
        date: None
       words: 10329
      flesch: 78
     summary: This arrangement was completed, and I agreed with the new owners (Russell & Co.) to take the engines out of the vessel, and to change the rig from ship to barque, with the object of loading cotton for New York--the first from China to America. After the salute, the order was given to abandon ship, and all this was done with as much coolness as if going to a church parade.
    keywords: board; boat; captain; crew; days; man; men; new; northfleet; officer; sea; ship; time; vessel; way
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