Lost ships and lonely seas
Publisher: The Century Co.
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: I The Singular Fate of the Brio Polly 3; title: II How the Schooner Exertion Fell among Thieves 25; title: III The Tragedy of the Frigate Medusa 51; title: IV The Wreck of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman 76; title: V The Adventures of David Woodard, Chief Mate 107; title: VI Captain Paddock on the Coast of Barrary 131; title: VII Four Thousand Miles in an Open Boat 160; title: VIII The Frigates That Vanished in the South Seas 180; title: IX When H. M. S. Phoenix Drove Ashore 212; title: X The Roaring Days of Piracy 232; title: XI The Loss of the Wager Man-of-War 250; title: XII The Cruise of the Wager's Long-Boat 288; title: XIII The Grim Tale of the Nottingham Galley 300; title: XIV The Storm-Swept Fleet of Admiral Graves 330; title: XV The Brisk Yarn of the Speedwell Privateer 350; title: XVI Luckless Seaman Long in Exile 367; title: XVII The Noble King of the Pelew Islands 303; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The wreck of the Polly Frontispiece; title: Seamanship was helpless to ward off the attack of the storm that left the brig a sodden hulk 8; title: Fresh water trickled from the end of the pistol-barrel, and they caught it in a tin cup 16; title: Volusia off Salem, built at Falmouth, Mass., in 1801, and Wrecked at Cape Cod in 1802 20; title: The pirate captain boarding the captured Exertion 29; title: Armed with as many of the aforementioned weapons as they could well sling about their bodies 53; title: Boats were filled with men whose only thought was to save their skins 56; title: The brig, which had made a long tack and was now steering straight toward the raft 64; title: Governor Glass and his residence 97; title: Woodard raised his empty hands to ask for peace and mercy 112; title: Wreck of the Grosvenor on the coast of Caffraria 144; title: Early American ship of the 18th Century 176; title: Perilous situation of the ship 224; title: The Charlemagne, a New York packet ship 272; title: Brig Topaz of Newport, built in 1807 305; title: The brig Olinda of Salem, built in 1825 352; title: Taking on the pilot in the 18th Century 384