File:Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners (1913) (14585658228).jpg

Identifier: barnstableyarmou02spra (find matches)
Title: Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, Frank William, b. 1842 Sprague, Leavitt, 1799-1875
Subjects: Sprague, Caleb, 1811-1893 Shipping -- Massachusetts Barnstable Shipping -- Massachusetts Yarmouth Voyages to the Pacific coast Barnstable (Mass.) -- Biography Yarmouth (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass.) : Privately printed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
well now, but cannot speak it thoroughlyyet, but get along very well now. She made the passage in 1850 from Malaga to Valparaiso,in eighty days. She made the run through the Straits of LeMaire and around Cape Horn to Valparaiso in ten days, summerpassage and fair winds. Captain Sprague wrote in his private letters : I have never fallen in with a ship since leaving New Yorkbut what the barque Rosario has passed her, and that easily. Howes & Co., of New York, built in 1851 at Somerset, Mass.,the ship Raven for Captain Sprague, but he did not arrive homein time to take command of her. In 1853, Messrs. LoringBrothers, of Malaga, built for him at Hoboken, N. J., the clippership Gravina. (Named for the Admiral Gravina who commandedthe Spanish reserves at Trafalgar.) I was on board this shipone night, when my father took me on deck to see the burning,at her dock in New York, of the ship Great Republic. Shewas so much damaged by the fire that she was cut down onedeck before going to sea.
Text Appearing After Image:
SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS I9 Many of the Barnstable captains and members of their fami-lies, when in New York (in the early fifties), made their head-quarters at the United States Hotel, opposite Fulton Ferry.When we went up to the Crystal Palace or the theatre, a specialFulton Ferry omnibus was chartered for our party. One day,while at the hotel, I was sliding down the banisters, when oneof the guests said, Well, my little man, you have got on a newsuit of clothes, Yes, and Mother says they set hke a shirton a marline-spike. A picture of that suit, with the boy inside,now in my possession, proves this criticism to have been just. The Gravina was a beautiful ship. Her cabin was fitted forpassengers. The two guns on her deck excited my boyish inter-est. They proved to be useful, for when in the China Sea theship was attacked by pirates in junks, shots from these gunsdrove the pirates away. She made her maiden voyage late inthe year 1853, from New York to Shanghai, with nine passen-g

Note About Images