The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860
By: by Samuel Eliot Morison ; with illustrations
Publisher: Converpage
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Scituate, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780972815567
Subjects: Commerce; History; Clipper ships; Histoire; Clippers (Navires)
Description: The Harvard educated historian relates the history of seafaring Massachusetts during the period when the clipper ship dominated the seas. In his preface Morison states that this is "no catalogue of ships, or a naval chronicle, but a story of maritime enterprise; and of the shipping, seaborne commerce, whaling and fishing belonging to one American Commonwealth."
Notes: Digital reproduction of the edition published by William Heinemann, Ltd., London, [1923.].

Title originally published Cambridge, MA : The Riverside Press, 1923.

Appendices: Cod and Mackerel Fisheries of Massachusetts 1837-1865, Annual Averages Of Massachusetts Whaling Industry, at three Early Periods, Comparison of Arrivals from Certain Foreign Ports at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans 1857, Foreign Places Whence Vessels Arrived in Principal Customs Districts of Massachusetts Year Ending June 30, 1857, Tonnage of Shipping Owned in Each Customs District of Massachusetts, and in the District of New York City, 1798-1860.

Includes bibliographical references pages 379-390, and index.