sailors

Jesse Martin tells the story of his experiences after setting sail from Melbourne, Australia on December 7, 1998 on his thirty-four foot yacht "Lionheart," to become the youngest person, at the age of eighteen, ever to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.

Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick".

This book gives an inside look at the lives of women in the Navy, from the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908 to the Navy women who serve today on massive warships like aircraft carriers and submarines.

In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

Jim, twelve years old, sets sail from Bristol as deckboy on a blockade runner, and arrives in America at the time of the Civil War.

Excerpts from the author's autobiography recall his experiences as a thirteen-year-old boy serving on an American privateer ship during the Revolutionary War.

On June 25, 1828, the Mary Russell sailed into Cork Harbour, Ireland, in tandum with another ship, the Mary Stubbs. The Mary Russell was being piloted by Mary Stubbs sailors and had seven murdered crew members on board, a missing captain, and six survivors of the massacre: four boys and two severely wounded seamen.

One of many variations of a forecastle chantey created about 1837 by an unknown sailor and named after the bow section of the ship where sailors sometimes bunked or relaxed.