It was as brutal and stupid as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which propelled us into WWII and had the same effect. The names of certain battleships will always be remembered. The Arizona was sunk in Pearl Harbor, and the intertwined destines of the Bismarck and the Hood even made it into song. Some events and incidents capture the imagination. There are few rowboats and canoes or even motor boats that one reads about, but catalogues of old Town Canoe, Criss Craft, and Evenrude are a few that did produce ephemera.
Catalogues showing the style and models are very desirable.
Advertising in any form, from clocks to postcards, have a hard core following. Even as I write this column, with the fate of the sunken Russian submarine s crew still tottering on the brink of disaster, one can only imagine how many have sunk to Davy Jones s Locker since the days of the Monitor and Merrimack. If there is anything as graceful, elegant, or romantic as a square-rigger, I should like to know what it is. The history of America is woven through with sailing ships. Sailing ships brought emigrants including the Pilgrims to America.