Bluejackets in the Blubber Room Quotes

of the William Badger can be easily separated

this voyage, on his favorite ship, Harriet Rockwell, he died

as well as Master Badger himself. Perhaps Samuel

independence. Japan suffered its second-worst

he established a beachhead on Bogue Banks, enabling the Union army to invest

gunboats steamed up the Neuse River and, in a soup of fog, rain, and gun smoke,

draft Confederate gunboats had proven they could easily maneuver through

Edward D. Morgan. More important, he was the husband of Welles's favorite

on how far the vessel was progressing. If the vessel performed well at sea,

the United States to declare the Confederacy

generally required strengthening and

suck the life out of the South through amphibious assaults

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

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