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  • THE CORSAIR IN THE WAR ZONE
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    THE CORSAIR IN THE WAR ZONE
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: "The task of the American Navy in the great conflict was performed exceedingly well, but so very quietly that even now the merits of the achievement are realized only by those who knew how near the German submarine campaign came to winning the war. There was no blacker period than the spring of 1917 when the losses of Allied merchant shipping were mounting toward a mil...

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  • FOUR BELLS, A TALE OF THE CARIBBEAN
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    FOUR BELLS, A TALE OF THE CARIBBEAN
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: "The romance of the sea! Damned rubbish, he called it. The trade of seafaring was one way to earn a living. This was about all you could say for it. He had been lured into the merchant service as the aftermath of an enlistment in the Naval Reserve for the duration of the war. There was a great hurrah, as you will recall, over the mighty fleet of new cargo ships which w...

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  • THE WRECKING MASTER
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    THE WRECKING MASTER
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: ""A thick night and no mistake, Dan. It's as black as the face of a Nassau pilot. We ought to be nearing the coal wharf by now. Of course they wouldn't have sense enough to leave a light on it to give us our bearings." Captain Jim Wetherly was growling through the window of the darkened wheel-house to his deck-hand, young Dan Frazier, as the oceangoing tug Resolute fel...

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  • A CADET OF THE BLACK STAR LINE
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    A CADET OF THE BLACK STAR LINE
    DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: "The strength of fifteen thousand horses was driving the great Black Star liner Roanoke across the Atlantic toward New York. Her promenade decks, as long as a city block, swarmed with cabin passengers, while below them a thousand immigrants enjoyed the salty wind that swept around the bow. Far above these noisy throngs towered the liner's bridge as a little world set a...

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  • BLACKBEARD: BUCCANEER
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    BLACKBEARD: BUCCANEER
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    This book was written over 90 years ago and is set in Charles town, Carolina in 1718. The protagonist is Jack Cockrell, a young man from a good background. The tale follows his adventures and they involve Stede Bonnet & Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. Excerpt: “The year of 1718 seems very dim and far away, but the tall lad who sauntered down to the harbour of Charles Town, South Car...

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  • THE STEAM-SHOVEL MAN
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    THE STEAM-SHOVEL MAN
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    A great Sea Story. Excerpt: "The tall youth had no intention of waiting to be paid for his services, but he lived in an inland town and the deck of a ship was a strange and fascinating place. The Saragossa was almost ready to sail, bound out to the Spanish Main. Many passengers were on board. Among them were several tanned, robust men who looked as if they were used to hard wor...

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  • THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE: A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN SHIPS AND SAILORS
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    THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE: A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN SHIPS AND SAILORS
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: “The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A people with a native genius for seafaring won and held a brilliant supremacy through two centuries and then forsook this heritage of theirs. The period of achievement was no more extraordinary than was its swift declension. A marit...

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  • THE PRAYING SKIPPER, AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE PRAYING SKIPPER, AND OTHER STORIES
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    A great Sea Story. Excerpt: "A fortnight later the Suwannee was steaming across the sapphire Gulf. Before her bow flying-fish skittered and splashed like flights of shrapnel bullets, on deck sailors were stretching awnings fore and aft, and wind-sails bellied in the open hatches. Men in flannels and women in trim, white freshness leaned along the rail and watched the sparkling ...

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  • THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE
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    THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: "With the name of pirate is also associated ideas of rich plunder, caskets of buried jewels, chests of gold ingots, bags of outlandish coins, secreted in lonely, out of the way places, or buried about the wild shores of rivers and unexplored sea coasts, near rocks and trees bearing mysterious marks indicating where the treasure was hid. And as it is his invariable prac...

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  • THE FIGHT FOR A FREE SEA: A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF 1812
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    THE FIGHT FOR A FREE SEA: A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF 1812
    RALPH DELAHAYE PAINE
    Excerpt: “The American people of today, weighed in the balances of the greatest armed conflict of all time and found not wanting, can afford to survey, in a spirit of candid scrutiny and without reviving an ancient grudge, that turbulent episode in the welding of their nation which is called the War of 1812. In spite of defeats and disappointments this war was, in the large, en...

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