| Summary: | This book gives a brief history of square-rigged ships of the British North American merchant marine, an area of shipping history not previously well-covered. Many of the ships and crews the author writes about worked on the Grand Banks as a part of the Banks Fishery. -- This copy includes eight pages of illustrations from Blue Peter colour prints, tipped-in at the beginning. Blue Peter colour prints: The China clippers. Cutty Sark Thermopylæ. The American clippers. Dreadnought Flying Cloud. The Boston clippers. James Baines Lightning. The Melbourne clipper. Carlisle Castle -- Chapter 1. The dawn of British North American shipping -- Chapter 2. The boom days of the 'fifties -- Chapter 3. The 'sixties in Quebec and New Brunswick shipping -- Chapter 4. The 'sixties in Nova Scotia--a period of expansion -- Chapter 5. The Bluenose fashion -- Chapter 6. The Nova Scotiamen of the palmy 'seventies -- Chapter 7. The 'seventies in New Brunswick shipping -- Chapter 8. The 'seventies in Quebec, Prince Edward Island and the lakes -- Chapter 9. The 'eighties in Nova Scotia shipping -- Chapter 10. The 'eighties in New Brunswick, Quebec and Prince Edward Island -- Chapter 11. The last of the Bluenose ships -- Appendix. This copy contains several additional illustrations on p. [2], the title page, and p. [3] of cover.
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