Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 13

load, and he/she takes hire for England. There she would be sold, his/her crew
making homeward their walk in the other ships and his/her money of purchase expenses in
articles had need in the colonies. This was the practice to the agenda, and with
vases sold to the so early foreign countries after their completion that the shipyards have to have
is active to have been all right out, as they show the files, a fleet of fully 280
vases for Massachusetts alone within 1718. In front of this duration, also, the
American Shipwrights had made such progress in the dominion of their art
what they was building ships for the real military harbor. The "Falkland", built to
Portsmouth approximately 1690, and bringing 54 guns, it was the first of these,
but after its corvets of time, recreation-of-war boat, and rubbings were launched in
England New puts in enclosure to fight for the king. It was the good preparation for
building those that to a later date you/he/she should fight against him.

Looking again on the long record of American maritime progress one,
not but is thrilled with the many and the important contributions done from
American--native or he/she adopted--to sea architecture. To an American
city, John Ericsson that the world owes the propeller of life. Americans sent
the first steamboat through the ocean--her "Savanna", in 1819. American,
taken part in a fratricidal war, it invented the ironclad in the "Monitor" and
the "Merrimac", and, showing the value of iron ships for war,
sounded the tolled funeral of wood ships for peaceful work. An American before
shown the commercial possibilities of the steamboat, and if history
it denies whole precedence to Fulton with his "Clermont", in 1807 that it is able
still has asked for John Fitch, another American, with his/her defective boat
on the Delaware in 1787. But perhaps none of these inventions it had more
simple utility that the schooner of England New that had his/her birth and his/her
baptizing to Gloucester in 1713. The history of his to call is one of the
more old man in ours to people-know harbor.

"See how her the schoons!" a spectator cried, while coining a verb to describe the