Coasting Schooner: The Four-Masted Albert F. Paul

by Robert H. Burgess

Book Overview

Relatively little has been recorded about the activities of the hundreds of coasting schooners that operated along the east coast of North America in the first part of the century. This unusually thorough history recounts the entire career of one of the last of these colorful sailing ships in American waters, the Albert F. Paul, from construction and launching in 1917 to her loss at sea in 1942. Aided by his personal acquaintance with the Paul over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917376315
• ISBN13: 9780917376313
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Mariners' Museum
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher