Bluejackets in the Blubber Room Quotes

“of the William Badger can be easily separated”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“this voyage, on his favorite ship, Harriet Rockwell, he died”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“as well as Master Badger himself. Perhaps Samuel”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“independence. Japan suffered its second-worst”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“he established a beachhead on Bogue Banks, enabling the Union army to invest”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“gunboats steamed up the Neuse River and, in a soup of fog, rain, and gun smoke,”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“draft Confederate gunboats had proven they could easily maneuver through”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Edward D. Morgan. More important, he was the husband of Welles's favorite”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“on how far the vessel was progressing. If the vessel performed well at sea,”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“the United States to declare the Confederacy”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“generally required strengthening and”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“suck the life out of the South through amphibious assaults”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“lacked the sleek beauty and speed of the illustrious clipper ships that fascinate so many aficionados of pre-steam shipping lore. And since she never slithered”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Bonney's last sentence in his final entry is indicative of the importance placed on returning home loaded with oil. Crew be damned, it was”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“with a peripheral overview of the hunt and cutting-in process, are necessary here as we discuss the ship's newfound success at striking whales. The Badger's conversion from merchant ship to whaleship required several significant alterations to her frame.”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“So until the refinement of petroleum”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“seventy-six miles west of Brunswick, on the Piscataqua River that separates Maine from New Hampshire, another player in the American Civil War began life in 1828. Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, however, the ship William Badger received no honors for her struggle to preserve the Union. In fact, she warrants only a brief”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Bulletin from Johnny Cake Hill, the editors attributed the specious charge not to New Bedford whalemen but to “Sag Harbor boys.” The boys were advised to “straighten it out amongst themselves.”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“the captain's sadism became directed at other members of the ship until a ring of Polynesian sailors”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“In 1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Many books have been written about the nautical world of the nineteenth century. Most of the best of these were written long ago and, although crucial to an understanding of that dizzying period, are dated”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May 26, 1828, in Nuremburg, Germany, a mysterious child named Kaspar Hauser made headlines when he appeared out of nowhere, walking the streets in a daze. In the United States, Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams in one of the bitterest presidential elections in American history. Jackson's candidacy established a new political”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Pohnpei, also known as Ponape, was called Ascension Island in 1856.”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Almost two hundred whaleships visited the small island”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“The William Badger sailed—then merely floated—for thirty-seven years. She started life as a merchantman in the lucrative “cotton triangle” between New England, the southern cotton ports, and Europe. She was later sold and converted into”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Preface In 1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“While nineteenth-century merchant vessels have received less attention than whalers and Civil War blockaders—particularly merchant ships built prior to the romantic clipper era—several writers have produced valuable scholarship on these workhorses of the seas.”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Preface In 1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America,”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“and Alexander Starbuck were two of the earliest nonfiction writers to explore the profession of whaling. Macy wrote The History of Nantucket in 1835. It is, as the title suggests, a history of his island home and gives a concise overview of Nantucket's importance in the development of whaling. Starbuck's The History of the American Whale”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865