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The Sway of the Grand Saloon
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John Malcolm Brinnin |
**The Glorious Age** of passenger ships has ended. Here, splendors and miseries together, is the whole marvelous story. It begins on a January morning in 1818 when, frosted with snow, a creaking litt… |
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The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813
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Greg H. Williams |
"During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, French privateers and cruisers legally and illegally took cargo from merchant vessels. Filed by descendants of anyone who had a financial interes… |
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The last voyage of the SS Henry Bacon
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Donald R. Foxvog |
"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to them as the 'Ugly Ducklings,' yet they provided a vital link between the United States' Arsenal of Democracy and the Allied Forces. A total of 2,710 L… |
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