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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. Chapter 8: Development of the American merchant vessel. the names of Medford-built ships are italicized. THE first improvement in the speed of ships was suggested by the French luggers which came over here at the time of the Revolution. These ideas were applied to the design of privateers in the second war with Great Britain. Plate I shows a model of the Privateer Brig Avon, Owned by the Medford Historical Society. built in 1813 by Calvin Turner, in twenty-six days. Her lines indicate a very fast vessel, which she proved to be. Her high stern and low bow was a survival of the previous century and was a great advantage in a fighting ship, as guns could be mounted in the stern and used to repel a boarding party to greater advantage. She was very sharp, both forward and aft, and had considerable width, her water line length being but about three and one-half times her greatest breadth. She was built entirely for speed. Her