like the California clipper David Crockett or the Western Ocean packet Dreadnought, both ships remembered in songs in this book. And what an inheritance to have from these great ships! We catch the lively, proud, occasionally rueful feelings of the men themselves towards these ships whose names, among all who cherish the sea and seafaring, having passed into legend. We will never be closer to these ships than when we sing their songs-as their people sang them. PS This review is adapted from the foreward to the book. Liverpool Shipping, Trade & Industry: Essays on the Maritime History of Merseyside, 1780-1860, ed. Valerie Burton (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1989, l 12pp, illus., £3.95pb) This lively, fact-filled volume reviews the emergence of Liverpool as a major port in a period when bulk cargoes of cotton, timber, and wheat were pouring into the UK and ultimately other industrializing European cities through what started out as slumbrous, sandy little harbor on the Mersey River. By the mid-
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The ' night was calm and the winds were light. Captain William Jones guided his Schooner toward the harbor. With unbelievable quickness, the winds shifted and a raging storm descended on Lake Michigan. The ship ran aground. To escape the violent .s urf, the crew took refuge in the rigging. The rescue that followed went down in history as one of the most heroic and challenging of the United States Life Saving Service. This film faithfully re-creates a true adventure on the Great Lakes. Endorsed by the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History . 58 Minutes · Color - NTSC - VHS Available for only S39 .95 (plus tax and S2 . 50 shipping). Licensed for private home use only . Licensing is available for public and educational use.
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