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Lost Fleet A Family, the Confederate Navy, and the Arctic Disasters That Destroyed Yankee Whaling

Lost Fleet A Family, the Confederate Navy, and the Arctic Disasters That Destroyed Yankee Whaling
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  • ISBN-13: 9780312286484
  • ISBN: 0312286481
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press

AUTHOR

Songini, Marc L., Songini, Marc

SUMMARY

"It's the mid-nineteenth century and the American whaling fleet, the wonder and envy of the maritime nations of the world, is struck by one hammer blow after another. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Now conditions are getting even worse, and the chances become ever slimmer that a whaling master and his crew will return from a voyage safe and profitable. The scarcity of whales, the increasing dangers of going farther into the Arctic, and the roving Confederate privateers are making this already difficult profession ever riskier. Many whalers give up the life - but some carry on the vocation." "One such man is a tall captain from Wethersfield, Connecticut,Thomas William Williams. Not only does he go out on voyage after voyage, but he even takes on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter." "The Lost Fleet's narrative recounts Williams's remarkable career, including a daring escape from the Confederate cruiser Alabama and a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast."--BOOK JACKET.Songini, Marc L. is the author of 'Lost Fleet A Family, the Confederate Navy, and the Arctic Disasters That Destroyed Yankee Whaling', published 2007 under ISBN 9780312286484 and ISBN 0312286481.

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