Year: 1930 Language: english Author: Howard Irving Chapelle Genre: History Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 217 Description: FIRST EDITION, NUMBERED AND LIMITED ISSUE OF THIS HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED AND INVALUABLE WORK ON THE BALTIMORE CLIPPERS, the Southern cousins of the American 'Yankee' Clippers and mainstays of 19th century American mercantile transport. There is no other type of vessel that holds as much interest to Americans as their fabled Clippers. The Baltimore Clipper was a southern favorite for anyone requiring a fast ship. This also led to them having a darker side of their history; they were the vessel of choice for the slavers, as well as those engaged in illegal trades such as smuggling and piracy in the West Indies. The fine measured drawings and accompanying plates supplied here are of tremedous value to anyone interested in model building.
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The fine measured drawings and accompanying plates supplied here are of tremedous value to anyone interested in model building.
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The Baltimore Clipper
Language: english
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 217
Description: FIRST EDITION, NUMBERED AND LIMITED ISSUE OF THIS HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED AND INVALUABLE WORK ON THE BALTIMORE CLIPPERS, the Southern cousins of the American 'Yankee' Clippers and mainstays of 19th century American mercantile transport. There is no other type of vessel that holds as much interest to Americans as their fabled Clippers. The Baltimore Clipper was a southern favorite for anyone requiring a fast ship. This also led to them having a darker side of their history; they were the vessel of choice for the slavers, as well as those engaged in illegal trades such as smuggling and piracy in the West Indies.
The fine measured drawings and accompanying plates supplied here are of tremedous value to anyone interested in model building.
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The fine measured drawings and accompanying plates supplied here are of tremedous value to anyone interested in model building.Screenshots
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