The Voyage of the Rose City

The Voyage of the Rose City
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Publisher : Spiegel & Grau
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780812982435
ISBN-13 : 0812982436
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

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A true high-seas adventure by the late son of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan describes his formative college summer in the merchant marine during which he endured the brutal hardships of a mariner while forging friendships, visiting port towns and avoiding pirate attacks.

The Voyage of the Rose City

The Voyage of the Rose City
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9780679643814
ISBN-13 : 0679643818
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Voyage of the Rose City by : John Moynihan

A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat Moynihan had worked the New York City docks and knew what his son would encounter. However, John’s mother, Elizabeth, an avid sailor, found the idea of an adventure at sea exciting and set out to help him get his Seaman’s Papers. When John was sworn in, he was given one piece of advice: to not tell the crew that his father was a United States senator. The job ticket read “forty-five days from Camden, New Jersey, to the Mediterranean on the Rose City,” a supertanker. As the ship sailed the orders changed, and forty-five days became four months across the equator, around Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and up to Japan—a far more perilous voyage than John or his mother had imagined. The physical labor was grueling, and outdated machinery aboard the ship, including broken radar, jeopardized the lives of the crew. They passed through the Straits of Malacca three times, with hazardous sailing conditions and threats of pirates. But it was also the trip of a lifetime: John reveled in the natural world around him, listened avidly to the tales of the old timers, and even came to value the drunken camaraderie among men whose only real family was one another. A talented artist, John drew what he saw and kept a journal on the ship that he turned into his senior thesis when he returned to Wesleyan the following year. A few years after John died in his early forties, the result of a reaction to acetaminophen, his mother printed a limited edition of his journal illustrated with drawings from his notebooks. Encouraged by the interest in his account of the voyage, she agreed to publish the book more widely. An honestly written story of a boy’s coming into manhood at sea, The Voyage of the Rose City is a taut, thrilling tale of the adventure of a lifetime.

Pacific Ports

Pacific Ports
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105128531170
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

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The Nautical Gazette

The Nautical Gazette
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1116
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HXH1ML
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (ML Downloads)

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Ships That Sail No More

Ships That Sail No More
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780813194417
ISBN-13 : 0813194415
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Ships That Sail No More by : Giles T. Brown

This chronicle of coastal shipping in the western United States forms an important but hitherto neglected part of the history of transportation in America. From the beginning the seaways were a vital link among the developing West Coast settlements, and even after the completion of a north-south rail line sturdy steamers continued to serve as the major carriers of freight and passengers along the Pacific Coast and as the chief economic and cultural contact of this region with the rest of America. Here, Giles T. Brown surveys this transportation system at the height of its activity and in particular he traces the history of the Admiral Line which dominated West Coast shipping during the early decades of the twentieth century—and whose decline mirrored that of the industry.

The Lutheran Church and California

The Lutheran Church and California
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105022352525
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lutheran Church and California by : Edward Martinus Stensrud

History of the Willamette Valley, Oregon

History of the Willamette Valley, Oregon
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951001963120H
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (0H Downloads)

Synopsis History of the Willamette Valley, Oregon by : Robert Carlton Clark

Voyage of Mercy

Voyage of Mercy
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250200488
ISBN-13 : 1250200482
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Voyage of Mercy by : Stephen Puleo

“Puleo has found a new way to tell the story with this well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city...Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surely is a tribute to the better angels of America’s nature, and in that sense, it couldn’t be more timely.” —The Wall Street Journal The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was the USS Jamestown, a converted warship, which left Boston in March 1847 loaded with precious food for Ireland. In an unprecedented move by Congress, the warship had been placed in civilian hands, stripped of its guns, and committed to the peaceful delivery of food, clothing, and supplies in a mission that would launch America’s first full-blown humanitarian relief effort. Captain Robert Bennet Forbes and the crew of the USS Jamestown embarked on a voyage that began a massive eighteen-month demonstration of soaring goodwill against the backdrop of unfathomable despair—one nation’s struggle to survive, and another’s effort to provide a lifeline. The Jamestown mission captured hearts and minds on both sides of the Atlantic, of the wealthy and the hardscrabble poor, of poets and politicians. Forbes’ undertaking inspired a nationwide outpouring of relief that was unprecedented in size and scope, the first instance of an entire nation extending a hand to a foreign neighbor for purely humanitarian reasons. It showed the world that national generosity and brotherhood were not signs of weakness, but displays of quiet strength and moral certitude. In Voyage of Mercy, Stephen Puleo tells the incredible story of the famine, the Jamestown voyage, and the commitment of thousands of ordinary Americans to offer relief to Ireland, a groundswell that provided the collaborative blueprint for future relief efforts, and established the United States as the leader in international aid. The USS Jamestown’s heroic voyage showed how the ramifications of a single decision can be measured not in days, but in decades.

Weekly Commercial News

Weekly Commercial News
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 970
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105008450269
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

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