The Western Ocean Packets

by Basil Lubbock

Abundantly illustrated pictorial history of mid-19th-century passenger ships, with their hopeful, opportunity-seeking human cargoes. Gripping tales of stowaways, shipwrecks, dramatic rescues, on-board epidemics, extreme hardships, self-reliant captains, heavy-fisted mates, and rough crews.

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1988

About the author

Alfred Basil Lubbock MC (9 September 1876 – 3 September 1944 at Monks Orchard, Seaford) was a British historian, sailor and soldier. He was a prolific writer on the last generation of commercial sailing vessels in the Age of Sail. He was an early (1911) member of the Society for Nautical Research, served on its council (1921–1924) and contributed to its journal, The Mariner's Mirror.