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Lost ships and lonely seas

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Ralph Delahaye Paine
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A vivid collection of maritime narratives recounts the fates of vessels and their crews through shipwrecks, long open-boat journeys, encounters with pirates and hostile coasts, and episodes of survival and navigation error. Each chapter examines a single incident, combining eyewitness accounts and historical reconstruction with period detail to portray the hazards of sailing and the resourcefulness of desperate survivors. Recurring motifs include endurance in extreme conditions, the caprice of fortune at sea, seamanship under stress, and the ties between coastal communities and distant voyages.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The wreck of the Polly Frontispiece
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Seamanship was helpless to ward off the attack of the storm that left the brig a sodden hulk 8
Fresh water trickled from the end of the pistol-barrel, and they caught it in a tin cup 16
Volusia off Salem, built at Falmouth, Mass., in 1801, and Wrecked at Cape Cod in 1802 20
The pirate captain boarding the captured Exertion 29
Armed with as many of the aforementioned weapons as they could well sling about their bodies 33
Boats were filled with men whose only thought was to save their skins 56
The brig, which had made a long tack and was now steering straight toward the raft 64
Governor Glass and his residence 97
Woodard raised his empty hands to ask for peace and mercy 112
Wreck of the Grosvenor on the coast of Caffraria 144
Early American ship of the 18th Century 176
Perilous situation of the ship 224
The Charlemagne, a New York packet ship 272
Brig Topaz of Newburyport, built in 1807 305
The brig Olinda of Salem, built in 1825 352
Taking on the pilot in the 18th Century 384