Pacific Square-Riggers

by James A. Gibbs and Illustrated by b&w Photo Illus Gibbs, Jim

Book Overview

A complete look at the Downeasters, seamen's missions and boarding house crimps, runners, as well as the great Star Fleet and well-known cannery vessels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887401066
• ISBN13: 9780887401060
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Another impressive job by 'Shipwreck Jim Gibbs"

Here's a description from the bookjacket's flyleaf: "Here we have the thrilling stories of the great wind ships that sailed the perilous seas. The story of the second Jonah, Jim Barclay, young sailor of The Star of the East, who in 1891 was actually swallowed by a whale and lived to tell of it. The story of the crew of the Jenny, deep-freezed in the ice of the Antarctic, for 37 years. The Barbary Coast mutinies, shanghaiing, excerpts from the Red Record of American hell ships, Great Glory of the Seas, which accomplished maritime supremacy for the United States in the 19th century, how she went through the ignomony of becoming a cold storage barge, finally to end her career in a 'blaze of glory' on the beach north of Seattle. The Diamond Head, the James Griffith Story, the Curse of the Melanopy, the Flying Clowd, the Robert Kerr, the Balcutha, and a hundred others. Schooners and Barkentines and Bounty Earners, they sailed from England and New England through waters that brought a man to pray and bravely lifted their canvas to the precarious waters of the Pacific. Whether they lived to barge coal, or sank to a sailor's death, they made West Coast history. Jim Gibbs, steeped in sea lore, aided by a fine store of photographs, presents a full-rigged account of this colorful seascape. A must book for the Mariner's library. ------------ Bonanza Books, 1977. 192 pages. Black/white photographs and drawings. Includes full photo index. Appendix A: Commercial Sailing Vessels built elsewhere, but owned on the Pacific Coast. Appendix B: Record Passages in the Pacific by Commercial Sailing Vessels.