TY  - BOOK
AU  - Killman,Daniel O.
AU  - Ellison,Rebecca Huycke
AU  - Huycke,Harold D.
AU  - Lyman,John
TI  - Forty years master: a life in sail and steam 
T2  - Marine, maritime, and coastal books
SN  - 1623493811
AV  - HE569.K55 K55 2016
U1  - 387.5092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
KW  - Killman, Daniel O.,
KW  - Sailing ships
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Steamboats
KW  - Ship captains
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Travel
KW  - Transportation Economics
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Business & Economics
KW  - Peru
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Pacific Coast (North America)
KW  - North America
KW  - Pacific Coast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - During Daniel O. Killman's more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, all the while remaining in impeccable standing with the owners of his vessels. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels in the Pacific is chronicled in Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam. Edited and annotated nearly forty years af
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