American Merchant Ships and Sailors

The Project Gutenberg eBook, American Merchant Ships and Sailors, byWillis J. Abbot, Illustrated by Ray BrownThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: American Merchant Ships and SailorsAuthor: Willis J. AbbotRelease Date: April 18, 2005 [eBook #15648]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS ANDSAILORS***E-text prepared by Jason Isbell, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net)Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 15648-h.htm or 15648-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/4/15648/15648-h/15648-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/4/15648/15648-h.zip)Transcriber's Note: General: Varied hyphenation is retained. In list of Illustrations DeLong is one word; in Table of Contents it is De Long; in text it is DeLong. More Transcriber's notes will be found at the end of sections.AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS AND SAILORSbyWILLIS J. ABBOTAuthor of _Naval History of the United States_, _Bluejackets of 1898_,etc.Illustrated by RAY BROWNNew YorkDodd, Mead & CompanyThe Caxton PressNew ...