item: #1 of 5
          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 5
          id: 28704
      author: Codman, John
       title: Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade
        date: None
       words: 10005
      flesch: 62
     summary: Regardless of any such consideration as that which solely actuated our investigators, Parliament at once abolished the prohibition to purchase foreign built ships. If he accepts these figures, or anything approaching them,--and the fact that the ocean is covered by foreign built ships to the exclusion of his own is proof of their correctness,--he may go on asking for a bounty on every ton he builds equivalent to the difference in cost.
    keywords: american; business; carrying; cost; iron; labor; new; shipbuilders; ships; steamships; time; trade; vessels
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 3099
      author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye
       title: The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
        date: None
       words: 41928
      flesch: 67
     summary: The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. These causes alone enable American ships still to keep the element and show the flag of their country in distant seas.
    keywords: afloat; american; atlantic; boston; british; captain; cargo; clipper; coast; commerce; crew; days; deck; dollars; east; england; english; french; great; guns; home; london; man; marine; master; men; merchant; miles; new; new england; packet; port; privateers; sail; sailing; sailors; salem; schooner; sea; seamen; seas; shipping; ships; small; states; time; trade; united; vessels; voyage; war; water; west; yankee; years; york
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 31953
      author: Bone, David W. (David William)
       title: Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war
        date: None
       words: 88078
      flesch: 74
     summary: The fog has added to our starting vagaries and postponed a happy understanding, but we shall do better later on when we have gauged and discovered--and pitied--the tiresome vacillations of the _other_ ships! Out at sea it is not easy to keep the right proportions in forming an opinion of measures devised on a grand scale, and of the operation of which we see only a small part.
    keywords: action; arms; board; boat; bridge; captain; channel; close; coast; company; control; convoy; course; craft; crew; day; days; deck; destroyers; dock; end; enemy; eyes; fine; fog; gear; german; good; gun; half; hand; head; high; illustration; land; life; line; look; man; master; measure; men; merchants; naval; navy; new; north; note; officers; open; orders; passage; point; power; practice; range; round; sailing; sea; seafaring; seamen; seas; service; set; ship; shipping; shore; sight; signal; speed; stand; station; steam; stern; submarine; tide; time; torpedo; trade; transport; troops; turn; vessels; voyage; war; watch; water; way; weather; work
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        item: #5 of 5
          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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