item: #1 of 21 id: 15920 author: Optic, Oliver title: Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat: A Story of Travel and Adventure date: None words: 81368 flesch: 83 summary: Say Wilton. I could do more for the boys in a month on board ship than I could in a year at Brockway. keywords: america; board; boys; cabin; captain; chain; course; crew; day; deck; duty; fellows; good; hands; kendall; know; lieutenant; lowington; officers; order; paul; pelham; place; port; principal; right; sea; second; ship; shuffles; sir; steerage; students; thing; time; watch; way; wilton; young cache: 15920.txt plain text: 15920.txt item: #2 of 21 id: 18062 author: London, Jack title: Stories of Ships and the Sea date: None words: 15343 flesch: 86 summary: He didn't look so wild or bearish after all--very much like other men, Bub concluded, and the sailors were much the same as all other man-of-war's men he had ever known. The Russians were in nowise different from other men. keywords: alf; boat; bub; cable; captain; car; chris; deck; hand; head; jerry; man; men; pay; schooner; sea; water; wind cache: 18062.txt plain text: 18062.txt item: #3 of 21 id: 21072 author: Collingwood, Harry title: The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific date: None words: 116016 flesch: 68 summary: The passengers moved forward as requested, Lance taking Blanche's hand upon his arm and giving it a little reassuring squeeze as he did so. He accordingly went out to them and, with an earnestness quite foreign to his usual manner, thanked them warmly yet courteously for their valuable assistance (Lance _never_ forgot that he was a gentleman, and was therefore uniformly courteous to everybody), and then dismissed them, adding at the last moment a word or two of reminder to Dickinson as to his promise for the following Sunday, which he emphasised with a hearty shake of the hand. keywords: bill; blanche; board; boat; bob; bowles; brig; captain; captain staunton; course; craft; crew; dale; day; deck; dickinson; evelin; eyes; face; gold; good; half; hand; head; hour; johnson; ladies; lance; launch; length; light; look; man; mate; men; minutes; moment; order; party; place; poor; ralli; rest; round; schooner; sea; set; ship; sir; skipper; staunton; think; thought; time; watch; water; way; wind; word; work cache: 21072.txt plain text: 21072.txt item: #4 of 21 id: 21745 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Life of a Ship date: None words: 6876 flesch: 88 summary: You may be sure that Davy did not refuse such a good offer; so the man and the boy went hand in hand to the yard where ships were built. Ships are always built on sloping stocks near to the water's edge; for you can fancy how difficult it would be to drag such a great thing into the water by main force. keywords: ben; captain; davy; men; sea; ship; water cache: 21745.txt plain text: 21745.txt item: #5 of 21 id: 21749 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships date: None words: 54161 flesch: 71 summary: A sloop of 40 tons burden is what we ordinarily call a _little_ ship, and one of 100 tons is by no means a big one. Doubtless the _first_ boats must have been constructed by the _first_ keywords: board; boat; bow; canoes; captain; course; craft; crew; cut; deck; eastern; end; engines; feet; fore; form; good; great; half; hour; iron; keel; lifeboat; little; man; mast; means; men; night; north; ocean; point; round; sail; sea; ship; size; south; steam; stern; time; tons; vessel; war; water; way; wind; world cache: 21749.txt plain text: 21749.txt item: #6 of 21 id: 23385 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Saved by the Lifeboat date: None words: 26011 flesch: 71 summary: The retreating water well-nigh swept the brave rescuer away, but other men of the town, fearless like himself, leaped forward, joined hands, caught hold of Jeff, and hauled him safe ashore along with the captain, who was carried away in a state of insensibility. The lives saved by its own boats last year were 603, in addition to which other 259 were saved by shore boats, for which the Institution rewarded the crews with thirteen medals, and money to the extent of above 6573 pounds, for all services. keywords: annie; board; boyns; captain; crew; day; father; good; harry; institution; lifeboat; man; men; mr webster; sea; self; ship; shore; sir; time; vessel; water; webster; wreck cache: 23385.txt plain text: 23385.txt item: #7 of 21 id: 23773 author: Optic, Oliver title: The Coming Wave; Or, The Hidden Treasure of High Rock date: None words: 66933 flesch: 84 summary: Stage all ready, Mr. Hamilton, interposed Leopold, who had listened with painful anxiety to a portion of the old man's arguments. Leopold Bennington and Stumpy are the chief characters. keywords: barth; beach; bennington; boat; cliff; day; diary; dollars; father; gold; hamilton; harvey; hotel; house; landlord; leopold; man; miss; money; moses; new; pay; place; rock; rosabel; sea; squire; stumpy; time; treasure; want; water; way; young cache: 23773.txt plain text: 23773.txt item: #8 of 21 id: 28748 author: Hopkins, William John title: The Sandman: His Sea Stories date: None words: 41695 flesch: 90 summary: And the years passed, and Captain Jacob got to be a very old man, and he died, too; and Lois was an old woman, and little Jacob, her son, had grown to be a man, and little Lois, her daughter, had grown up and married. And, when Captain Sol had finished his speech, the men all shouted out a cheer for him and another cheer for Captain Jonathan and Captain Jacob. keywords: captain; captain jacob; captain sol; captain solomon; good; industry; little; mate; men; ocean; sailors; ship; things; time; water; way; wharf cache: 28748.txt plain text: 28748.txt item: #9 of 21 id: 33098 author: Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir title: Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships date: None words: 44390 flesch: 72 summary: What is more natural than to suppose that the genius and science which enabled them to build the Pyramids and their vast temples and palaces, to construct huge works for the regulation of the Nile, and to quarry, work into shape, and move into place blocks of granite weighing in some cases several hundreds of tons, should also lead them to excel in the art of building ships? 27.--One of William the Conqueror's ships. 1066 A.D.] It must not be supposed that the art of building ships of larger size, which was, as we have seen, well understood by the Romans, about the commencement of our era, was forgotten. keywords: b.c; banks; boats; british; century; deck; dimensions; east; english; expedition; fig; fleet; french; galleys; greek; guns; henry; illustration; king; length; merchant; naval; navy; number; oars; period; reign; royal; sea; shipbuilding; ships; size; time; tons; upper; use; vessels; war; water; year; | | cache: 33098.txt plain text: 33098.txt item: #10 of 21 id: 34489 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers date: None words: 72149 flesch: 78 summary: Caboose was the name of the temple carried by the fire-worshipping Phoenicians on the decks of their vessels; the cook's house on board ship is now so called. Portugal ships and Spaniards without number were sure to be taken, even should the land fail to, yield what might be expected. keywords: board; boat; brave; captain; crew; day; deck; dick; don; donna; edward; enemy; english; fair; fire; good; governor; hugh; isabel; land; lion; lizard; man; master; men; officers; old; portugals; raymond; rest; round; sail; savages; sea; seamen; ship; shore; time; walker; water; waymouth; young cache: 34489.txt plain text: 34489.txt item: #11 of 21 id: 35015 author: Stephen, Vincent title: Wrinkles in Electric Lighting date: None words: 19595 flesch: 73 summary: _ 8vo, cloth, 15_s._ _Foundations and Foundation Walls for all classes of Buildings_, Pile Driving, Building Stones and Bricks, Pier and Wall construction, Mortars, Limes, Cements, Concretes, Stuccos, &c. _64 illustrations_. _Standard Practical Plumbing_; being a complete Encyclopædia for Practical Plumbers and Guide for Architects, Builders, Gas Fitters, Hot-water Fitters, Ironmongers, Lead Burners, Sanitary Engineers, Zinc Workers, &c. _ keywords: 8vo; arc; c.e; cloth; construction; contents; copper; crown; current; dynamo; edition; electric; engineers; fig; figs; gas; illustrations; iron; lamps; leads; light; lighting; means; plates; ship; speed; steam; time; treatise; use; water; wire; work cache: 35015.txt plain text: 35015.txt item: #12 of 21 id: 40689 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame date: None words: 37739 flesch: 84 summary: Finally, Mr. Dicky Plumb, with Ned Rawlings and I, with little Joss, fell to the share of an old fellow with a remarkably roguish expression of countenance. Sometimes we were allowed to remain there longer than at other times. keywords: board; boat; brigadier; captain; chinese; deck; dicky; father; good; jack; man; master; men; ned; plumb; round; sea; sergeant; ship; shore; time; way cache: 40689.txt plain text: 40689.txt item: #13 of 21 id: 43739 author: Day, Thomas Fleming title: Songs of Sea and Sail date: None words: 12813 flesch: 88 summary: When western winds are blowing soft Across the Island Sound; When every sail that draws aloft Is swollen true and round; When yellow shores along the lee Slope upward to the sky; When opal bright the land and sea And we boxed about in an aimless way, With a careless fling from sea to land, And spoke of the world as a young man may When he hasn't the time to understand. keywords: day; heart; land; light; love; main; man; men; ocean; port; sail; sea; ship; song; thro; tide; town; watch; wind; world cache: 43739.txt plain text: 43739.txt item: #14 of 21 id: 44629 author: Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd) title: The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer with Captain Hawes date: None words: 4996 flesch: 83 summary: Captain Hawes had explained the uses of lighthouses, how they showed the way to ships at night, like signs on street corners or crossroads, and also warned them to keep away from the rocks. Captain Hawes was an old sailor. keywords: betty; captain; children; hawes; illustration; sails; sea; ship cache: 44629.txt plain text: 44629.txt item: #15 of 21 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 cache: 45157.txt plain text: 45157.txt item: #16 of 21 id: 46731 author: Evans, Cerinda W. title: Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia date: None words: 27664 flesch: 77 summary: The grounds upon which this order was based were (1) the injustice of granting privileges to Virginia ship owners, not enjoyed by the owners of English vessels, trading in Virginia waters; (2) the success of the navigation laws would be impaired by creating a Virginia fleet, able to transport tobacco, without the assistance of English vessels; and (3) owners of English ships might be tempted to order them as belonging to Virginians. Teste, Joseph Billups, Jr. Various statistics were given by different writers for the number of Virginia owned vessels in the period just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. keywords: bbl; boat; building; captain; century; cleared; colony; corn; county; creek; england; feet; ferries; george; hhd; james; james river; john; june; land; landing; london; march; new; norfolk; number; point; pounds; river; schooner; ship; shipbuilding; sir; sloop; thomas; tobacco; tons; use; vessels; virginia; west; william; york; york river cache: 46731.txt plain text: 46731.txt item: #17 of 21 id: 50598 author: Hawes, Charles Boardman title: The Dark Frigate date: None words: 72105 flesch: 88 summary: In all truth, she had run upon a porcupine with quills set, for though a smaller vessel, the ketch, it now appeared, carried as many men or more, and every man knew his place and duty. We have lost two fights and many men and have got to show for it--a kettle of fish. keywords: boatswain; cabin; captain; cook; dark; day; deck; devon; door; eyes; face; fellow; good; great; hand; harry; hath; head; jacob; john; lad; lay; left; malcolm; man; marsham; martin; master; mate; men; mind; nay; night; phil; philip; rose; sea; set; ship; sir; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; water; way; wind; yea cache: 50598.txt plain text: 50598.txt item: #18 of 21 id: 52548 author: Bloundelle-Burton, John title: The Seafarers date: None words: 58975 flesch: 81 summary: Now I begin to understand why other men curse the sea, and say they would rather earn their living on shore driving busses than following our calling. And, at all events, it will be serious if more men are attacked. keywords: bampfyld; bella; board; cabin; charke; day; deck; emperor; eyes; face; gilbert; girl; god; good; hand; island; know; left; life; little; love; man; moment; moon; mrs; night; pooley; sailor; sea; ship; stephen; thing; thought; time; uncle; waldron; way cache: 52548.txt plain text: 52548.txt item: #19 of 21 id: 60796 author: Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry) title: The Second Mate date: None words: 20089 flesch: 92 summary: Perhaps you know my father there, Mr. Barnes--the physician, Doctor Sayers? Don't know anybody there, admitted Jim Barnes. But Jim Barnes sank down on the thwart beside Nora Sayers, and, smiling a little, reached up one of his automatics to Li Fu. keywords: barnes; boat; ellen; eyes; good; jim; jim barnes; john; lim; maggs; man; men; nora; sayers; ship; tock; women cache: 60796.txt plain text: 60796.txt item: #20 of 21 id: 61371 author: Wright, Gary title: Captain of the Kali date: None words: 6994 flesch: 95 summary: Now! And the order went rattle-rattle, click-click, wink, blink ... and reached out and touched Doctor John Ward. He was Comet Colonel John Ward, Terran Confederation, Earth; he was certain of that. keywords: corvettes; grimnal; kali; resi; ship; tahn; ward; water; wind cache: 61371.txt plain text: 61371.txt item: #21 of 21 id: 62176 author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye title: The Wrecking Master date: None words: 37268 flesch: 87 summary: Captain Jim pulled the whistle cord and the _Resolute_ clamored to the other tug to move out of the way. It was the _Kenilworth_, and Captain Jim and Dan Frazier stared at her with curious interest. keywords: aboard; bart; bill; boat; boy; captain bruce; captain jim; dan; dan frazier; deck; frazier; head; jerry; kenilworth; key; man; master; mcknight; pringle; reef; resolute; sea; ship; steamer; time; tug; water; way; west; wetherly cache: 62176.txt plain text: 62176.txt