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Title: The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Paine, Ralph Delahaye, 1871-1925
Subjects: Shipping
Publisher: New York : Outing Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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alem firm of Silsbee, Pickman and Allen built a fleet of fast and noble ships for the hemp trade, among them the Sooloo, Panay and Mindoro, but they never knew their own poij, and in 1896 the last of this fleet, the Mindoro, was towed to Derby Wharf in Salem harbor to rot in idleness until she was cut down to a coal barge. John Bertram deserved to be classed with the older generation of Elias Hasket Derby and Joseph Peabody, because he possessed the same high qualities of foresight, dating and sagacity a type of the militant leader of commerce on the firing line of * July 1, 1833. Nearly half our conunerdal capital is employed in/Other fiorls. During the past year there sailed from Salem 14 shifts, 10 of them forn did, 2 on whaling voyages to the Pacific; 5 barks, 4 of which for India; 94 brigs, 14 of them ror In<Sa; and S3 schooners;. Fourteen sh;;p^ 6 baiiks,_27brigs and 6 schooners beloinging to this plaee sailed from other .;(»tr;^ on.fdrdigQvoyages. (Felfs. Annals of Salem.) ,■/•
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Captain John Bertram The Ebbing of the Tide civilization. Like theirs, his was a splendid American spirit which created, builded, and won its rewards by virtue of nativeaibility inspired and impelled by the genius of its time and place. He was in a privateer in the War of 1812, and lived to see his countrys flag almost vanish from blue water, its superb merchant marine dwindle to almost nothing, but while it was in its glory he played well his part in carrying the stars and stripes, over his own ships, wherever the mariners of other nations went to seek commerce. This John Bertram came to Salem in his boyhood and in 1813 was sailing out of Boston as a cabin boy in the schooner Monkey. A little later shipping out of Charleston in a privateer, he was taken prisoner and confined in British prison ships at Bermuda and Barbados. Having learned to speak French in his early years on the Isle of Jersey he persuaded his captors that he was a French subject and wa sreleased but was again captured and carrie

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