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Merchant Marine, Fishing Links
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Fishing Posters
Source: HistoryImages.com
- Thumbnails and links to fishing posters.
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Star of India: About the Oldest Active Sailing Ship that Still Sails
Source: Maritime Museum of San Diego
City: San Diego, State: CA
E-mail: marketing@sdmaritime.org
- Star of India is the world's oldest
active sailing ship. She began her life
on the stocks at Ramsey Shipyard in the
Isle of Man in 1863. Iron ships were
experiments of sorts then, with most
vessels still being built of wood.
Within five months of laying her keel,
the ship was launched into her element.
She bore the name Euterpe, after the
Greek muse of music and poetry.
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Landing Bailey Island art print
Source: AllPosters
State: ME
- A 29 in. x 23 in. art print of a painting by Alfred Thompson Bricher featuring Landing Bailey Island, Maine.
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Historic Boston waterfront puzzles and posters
Source: Massachusetts Bay Trading Company
City: Boston, State: MA
- Puzzles and posters based on an illustration by John Roman showing Boston's historic Waterfront and North End districts.
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Fog Warning art print
Source: AllPosters
- 29 in. x 23 in. art print of Winslow Homer's most famous fisherman.
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Canals and Waterways of Great Britain
Source: The Frith Book Company
Author: Needham
Country: United Kingdom
- A selection of archive photos from the famous Francis Frith Collection. Includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photo in the book. (01/00)
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Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album
Source: The Frith Book Company
Author: Hardy
Country: United Kingdom
- A selection of historic archive photos from the famous Francis Frith Collection. Includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photo in the book. (2000)
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A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories
Source: Amazon
Author: Newport News Mariners' Museum, John Szarkowski
- "A Maritime Album is a book for coffee tables and collectors, a moving testimonial to the exaltation and apprehension of human interaction with the sea. In fishermen's parlance, it's a keeper." --NY Times (1997)
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An Eye for the Coast : The Maritime and Monhegan Island Photographs of Eric Hudson
Source: Amazon.com
Author: Eric Hudson, W. H. Bunting, and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
City: Monhegan, State: ME
- "Unless you reach for the Dramamine at the first mention of salt water, the maritime photographs of Elmer Forest ("Eric") Hudson (1862-1932) will hit you like an onshore breeze on a summer shore. ... The prints are all velvety grays and blacks of a kind impossible to coax from thirty-five millimeter film, and the extensive captions comprise histories of Monhegan, the nineteenth-century seaborne trade in fish, salt, ice, lumber, and molasses, and finally, the great diversity of wooden boats involved." --Antiques magazine (1998)
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Down the Thames
Source: The Frith Book Company
Author: Martin Andrew
Country: United Kingdom
- A selection of archive photos from the famous Francis Frith Collection. Includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photo in the book. (01/00)
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A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860--1920, Part II
Source: Amazon.com
Author: W. H. Bunting
State: ME
- From an Amazon reader: "Wow! Once in a while a book comes along that is so satisfying that one wonders if you really read it. I can't praise the author enough for bringing to life the life of Maine 100 years ago." (2000)
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Source: Amazon
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
City: Cape Cod, State: MA
- From an Amazon reader: "Philbrick's book is 'off the charts' excellent ... [it provides] a view of the voyage preceding the incident and its aftermath, the whaling industry and Nantucket itself. The Quaker influence on the Nantucket whaling trade is an intriguing story in itself. This is a simply wonderful and well-written book. From the first chapter the reader gets the feeling of being swept up into a developing catastrophe. I only wish I still had this book yet to read. No wonder this story inspired one of the greatest American novels ever written; Moby Dick." (2001)
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate
Source: Amazon
Author: Owen Chase
City: Cape Cod, State: MA
- On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale repeatedly rammed the whaleship Essex, causing her to sink. The 20-man crew were left in three small, open boats in the middle of the Pacific with little food and only 200 gallons of water. Bereft of charts, the boats sailed due east in the hopes of sighting land. Battered by storms, the boats became separated. Some 90 days later, a few men were rescued -- but not before they had been forced to make a terrible decision. (1821, 1999)
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The Old Man and the Sea
Source: Amazon
Author: Ernest Hemingway
- One of Hemingway's greatest novels. It's the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. (1954)
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Moby Dick
Source: Amazon
Author: Herman Melville
- It may be the single greatest work of American fiction.
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Action in the North Atlantic (VHS)
Source: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, directors
- Humphrey Bogart as the X.O. on a Liberty Ship. One of the most popular early WWII action movies. Amazon readers give it 4.5 stars. (1943)
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Moby Dick with Gregory Peck
Source: Amazon.com
State: MA
- From an Amazon reviewer: "I really, really enjoy this movie. Forget the Patrick Stewart version and see this one ... the special effects still beat any computerized junk I can think of. I never think for a moment I'm looking at a large, rubber whale. The whale hunts are invigorating and exciting, the narration par excellence, the Quaker-meets-saltwater dialogue is terrrific." (1956)
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