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Down Easters American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 by Basil Lubbock 1929
Down Easters American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 by Basil Lubbock
Hard Cover
285 pages
Copyright 1929
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.-THE SAN FRANCISCO GRAIN TRADE.
The Cape Homers-Some Statistics of the 'Frisco Grain Trade-Running Expenses and Profits-The Construction of a Down Easter-Rigging and Deck Plans-Spit and Polish-The Builders-The Naming of the Down Easters 1-13
CHAPTER II.-BULLY CAPTAINS, BUCKO MATES, AND CAPE HORN SHELLBACKS.
Character Making-The Curse of Drink-The Red Record-The Bucko in Print-The Mutiny of the Neptune's Car-The Skipper's Speech-Bully Captains-Of Puritan Stock-Searsport Shipmasters-John G. Pendleton Carries Sail-The Town of a Hundred Captains-Young Captains-Captain David Sherman Babcock of the Young America-Captain John A. Burgess of the David Crockett-Captain Joseph Limeburner of the Great Republic-Captain George Cummings of Young America and Three Brothers-Gates of the S. P. Hitchcock and Banfield of the St. James-Captain William J. Lermond-The Tragedy of the Washington B. Thomas -The Palmer Fleet-The Sail Carriers-Ed. Masters and his Tar Pot-Dave Libby of the General Knox-Shotgun Murphy and his Irish Flag-Some Famous Down East Mates-The Humour of the Down East Mate-"Hop on, Hop Ever"-"Sunday"-"Crow! and Crow Lively or I'll Let Fly at Ye!"-A Formula for Bracing Yards-The Cape Horn Shellbacks 14-40
CHAPTER III.-THE CLIPPERS IN THE CAPE HORN TRADE.
The Young America-The David Crockett-The Great Republic-The N. B. Palmer Sails up to her 'Frisco Wharf-Others Survivor of the Fifties-The Cape Homers of the Sixties-The Sovereigns of the Seas 41-60
CHAPTER IV.-DOWN EASTERS OF THE SEVENTIES.
The Glory of the Seas-The Great Admiral-The Loretto Fish and Jairus B. Lincoln-Chapman & Flint's Saints-St. Nicholas and St. John-St. Nicholas Caught Aback in a Gulf Stream Squall-The Samuel Watts - Ed. O'Brien's Early Ships- The Escape . of the A. McCallum -Carondelet's Record-Converted Steamers, Three Brothers ex Vanderbilt -The Ericsson-The Notorious May Flint-The Slippery Western Shore-Moon-Blindness Aboard El Capitan-Quincy's Northern Light, Triumphant and America-The Two Graces-Grandee Collides with an Iceberg-The Capsizing of the Alfred Watts-The Hell-Ship, St. Paul, Shanghaies a Sky-Pilot-The Story of the "Bloody" Gatherer-C. F. Sargent with Fidded Royal Masts-The Captain of the Spartan-The Mary L. Stone-Chargers and Charmers-Soule's Tam o' Shanter - Perry's Continental-Centennial's Battle with Cape Horn-City of Philadelphia Wrecked on the Billy Rocks-Captain Waldo of the Isaac Reed-North American, and South American-Sachem in the Ombai Passage-Paul Revere and her Stunsails-Indiana and Jabez Howes-The Unlucky Harvey Mills-The Frank Curling Capsizes off the Horn-Paul Richard Hazeltine Wrecked on Wollaston Island-The Big Eureka -St. Mark Races Joseph B. Thomas for the only Tug on Puget Sound -St. Stephen's Record-The Wandering Jew and Uncle Talpey - The Last of the Salem East Indiamen-The Barque Amy Turner-The Wreck of the Alfred D. Snow The Virtues of the Tar Pot-The Alex Gibson-Vigilant, a Hot Ship-The Mystery of the Pharos-The Dismasting of the Sintram-A Smart Passage by the Florence-Levi G. Burgess and Snow & Burgess-Red Cloud-A Floating Pigeon Loft-The Hell of a Ship, L. Schepp-The John A. Briggs-C. D. Bryant Hove Down-Manuel Llaguno-O'Brien's J. B. Walker-Solitaire and the Red Record-Sundry Down Easters of the Seventies 61-125
CHAPTER V.-THE DOWN EASTERS OF THE EIGHTIES
Boom Years in the Cape Horn Trade-George Stetson and James Drummond -Riesenberg's A. J. Fuller-Chapman's E. B. Sutton-Iroquois, Arabia, and Parker M. Whitmore-The Handsome Tacoma--Captain Lermond's Joseph B. Thomas-The Hungry Reuce-The William J. Rotch of New Bedford-The General Knox-Flint's John McDonald-The I. F. Chapman-St. Francis-The Big Edward-The Clipper Cyrus Wakefield-. John Currier-The Beautiful Abner Coburn-Henry Failing-Minott's Berlin-The W. F. Babcock-The Smart St. James-The Skysail-yarder S. P. Hitchcock-The Tillie E. Starbuck-The Hell-Ship Benjamin F. Packard-The Lovely Kennebec-Watts' Last Square-rigger, the R. D. Rice-Minott's St. Charles-T. F. Oakes Overdue-The Other 1883 Ships-The Famous Henry B. Hyde-The A. G. Repes-Commodore T. H. Allen, Blood-boat-The Robert L. Belknap-The Clarence S. Bement-The Speedy Adam W. Spies-George Curtis-The Frederick Billings-The Good-looking Francis-Besse's Hotspur and Other 1885 Ships-The Slump of the Square-rigger and the Rise of the Fore-and-after -The Mutiny of the Frank N. Thayer 126-171
CHAPTER VI.-THE DOWN EASTERS OF THE NINETIES.
The Firm of Sewall--The Rappahannock-Murphy's Shenandoah-The S. D. Carleton, Captain Amesbury-Susquehanna-St. Katherine and PactolusParthia-T he Gigantic Roanoke-The Queerly Rigged Olympic - Minott's Aryan-The Unlucky Holliswood-The Mighty DingoSewall's Big Clipper, Erskine M. Phelps-Arthur Sewall and Edward Sewall -The Swift Kaiulani-The William P. Frye-Astral, Acme, and Atlas 172-204
CHAPTER VII.-THE LAST OF AMERICA'S SQUARE-RIGGERS.
C. Brewer & Co.-Foohng Suey and Helen Brewer-Iolani and Nuuanu - Nuuanu's Last Horn Passage-Captain Walter Lyman Josselyn-The Dismasting of the Foohng Suey-Captain William Matson-The Annie Johnson-Marion Chilcott-Falls of Clyde-Monterey ex Cypromene-The Welch Fleet-John Ena-Hawaiian Isles--The Romantic Story of Manga Reva--Mauna Ala ex Pakwan-Diamond Head Coronado ex Waikato - Archer-The End of the Matson Sailing Fleet-The Alaska Packers Association-Wreck of the Sterling-Captain Wester of the Star of Italy-Tragic End of the Star of Bengal-La Escocesa, The Scottish Lady-Star of India ex Euterpe-Star of England ex Blairmore-Star of Scotland ex Kenilworth-Star of Holland ex Zemindar-Star of Peru ex Himalaya-Star of Alaska ex Balclutha-Wreck of the Star of Falkland Star of Iceland ex Willscot -Star of Lapland-E. R. Sterling, Six-mast Barquentine-The Last Passage of the E. R. Sterling-Monongahela-The Beautiful Tusitala - The Rolph Navigation and Coal Company-The Robert Dollar Company 205-249
APPENDIX.
Register of American Built Ships-(II) The Searsport Captains-(III) Young America, Complete List of Passages-(IV) Cape Horn Passages of David Crockett-(V) Abstract Log of Ship Glory of the Seas-(VI) Fureign Built American Ships-(VII) Paul Jones, an Early Down Easter 253-273
PREFACE
When I first began hunting up sailing ship records some years before the War I was early struck by the romance of the Cape Horn passage round the Americas, and I at once started to collect logs and journals of the famous American clippers which raced round the Horn to California and China in the fifties.
I should probably have published my efforts but for the fact that the late Captain Arthur H. Clark forestalled me, and treated the subject in a far superior manner to anything I could have done, in his Clipper Ship Era. I noticed with regret, however, that he had confined his records to the out-and-out clippers, and that numbers of what were then called half or medium clippers were not mentioned, nor was the work carried on into the period which followed the North and South War.
In this hook I have endeavoured to complete the history of the American square-rigged sailing ship which has been so ably begun, not only by Captain Clark but by such gifted writers as Samuel Eliot Morison, R. D. Paine, J. R. Spears, Winthrop I,. Marvin, and others. The Down Easters makes no pretence to be a literary effort; my main-my only-concern in compiling it is to preserve the memory of a number of beautiful ships sailing under the Stars and Stripes, and to give pleasure to the few remaining old shellbacks who sailed them.
I have done my best to get at the truth-no easy matter in dealing either with the present or the past-but mistakes are sure to occur, though I hope there will not be many. We are all fallible, and our memories are far from perfect. This must be my excuse, to be coupled with my apology, for any mis-statements. I have tried to deal fairly with every sailorman mentioned in the book, and have done my best to avoid hurting the feelings of anyone.
I have to thank a great number of old sailors and shipping people for information, which could have been obtained in no other way, and also for a great many of the illustrations, which I hope will give the layman some idea of the beauty and majesty of the old Down Easter, with her gleaming cotton canvas and shining masts and spars.
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