The Colonial Clippers. E-book. Formato PDF Basil Lubbock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

IN this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cross. It is written specially for the officers and seamen of our Mercantile Marine, and I have endeavoured to avoid such a criticism as the following Heaps about other ships, but my old barkey was one of the fastest and best known of them all and he dismisses her with a line or two.

The Blackwall Frigates. E-book. Formato PDF Basil Lubbock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The sea has ever been more conservative than the land, for the simple reason that at sea every attempt to step forward has to be paid for in human life rather than coin of the realm.

Round the Horn Before the Mast. E-book. Formato PDF Basil Lubbock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

He had had rather a bad time of it lately, having had to give up the wine-mixing, where he was doing very well, as he got knocked over with a very bad bout of fever; only half recovered from the fever, he hung on at Frisco, living by means of his wits and free lunch counters, until it struck him that he would try and get home, and see if he could get hold of some money which was due to him.