Alone at sea
Subtitle: Gloucester in the age of the dorymen, 1623-1939
By: John N. Morris.
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Beverly, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780981943077
Subjects: Fisheries -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester -- History; Fishers -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester -- History; Dories (Boats) -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester -- History; Gloucester (Mass.) -- Economic conditions; Gloucester (Mass.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: book 1: Climb to greatness (1623-1869); title: A time before the dorymen; title: A new future?; title: The arrival of the mackerel; title: Period of expansion; title: The mackerel prosperity of the 1850s; title: Civil War; title: Dory fishing comes to Gloucester; title: To be a dory fisherman; title: book 2: The time of the master mariners (1870-1899); title: Reciprocity and the Bay; title: Disaster on the Banks; title: Immigrant fishermen come to Gloucester; title: A scarcity of fish; title: Fishing for halibut off Iceland; title: Gloucester's move into the fresh-haddock fishery; title: book 3: A time of transition (1900-1910); title: Stabilization of the fleet and the coming of the auxiliaries; title: An end of innocence; title: The changing fleet and the changing Gloucester fisheries; title: Gloucester's thriving "fresh-fish" fleet; title: book 4: The war years (1911-1919); title: Cheap, duty-free fish enter Gloucester; title: Gloucester on the verge of war; title: The world changes : war comes to Europe; title: 1915 : an altered landscape; title: 1916 : the lull before the storm; title: Winds of war in early 1917; title: 1918 : the war comes to America; title: 1919 : an uncertain transition; title: book 5: "In a breeze-of-wind" (1920-1939); title: Economic decline and the first of the international fishermen's races : Mayflower versus Delawana; title: The coming of the racing fishermen : Mayflower and Bluenose; title: 1922 : "The worst has passed" and the races go on : Puritan and Henry Ford; title: 1923 : yet Another great Gloucester racing schooner, "Piney's" Columbia; title: The fisheries in the mid- to late-1920s, beginning with the 1924 turnaround; title: The Great Depression; title: The mackerel fishery in the Depression; title: The halibut fishery in the Depression; title: The end of an era; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: Glossary of terms; title: Appendix B: Fish landings; title: Appendix C: The Gloucester fleet, vessels lost, men lost at sea.