Forty years master : a life in sail and steam
Daniel O. Killman (Author), John Lyman (Editor), Harold D. Huycke (Editor), Rebecca Huycke Ellison (Compiler)
Print Book, English, 2016
First edition View all formats and editions
Texas A & M University Press, College Station, 2016
Biographies
xxiv, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9781623493806, 1623493803
931226756
Introduction / Brian J. Rouleau
Early life
From third mate to first mate
Twice around Cape Horn
Master in steam and sail
Commanding the Kitsap
The wreck of the Julia H. Ray
Whalers in the Arctic
Alaska and the salmon trade
A married man
Trouble on the Yangtze
A court case
To the Klondike for gold
San Francisco earthquake, Yokohama typhoon
The Peruvian oilfields
Hurricane in the tropics
War in Europe
Arrested for murder
A new owner for the H.K. Hall
A run to Japan in a shipping board steamer
A lost rudder
Carrying coal to Peru
An auto accident
A Finnish sailor bests five Peruvian police
Saving the charter of the Ella A
The last voyage of the schooner Ella A
Bound for home
Afterword / David Hull
Notes
Glossary of nautical terms