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Merchant mariners --- Fishers --- Seafaring life. --- Ship captains --- Isbester, J. --- Scotland

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"Based on the Official Records, biographical works, ship and operations histories, newspapers and other sources, this book chronicles the lives of 158 ironclad captains, North and South, who were charged with outfitting and commanding these vessels in combat. Each biography includes birth and death information, pre- and postwar career, and details about ships served upon or commanded"--

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Reinhard 'Teddy' Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service's most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good humour and ability to lead, his nickname was acquired because he marched like a teddy-bear.Despite his refusal to conform to the rigid thought-patterns of National Socialism, his operational successes protected him, and he found himself accepted in the highest circles of pow

World War, 1939-1945 --- Submarine captains --- Atlantic, Battle of the, 1939-1945 --- Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 --- Captains, Submarine --- Submarine boat captains --- Ship captains --- Naval operations, German. --- Campaigns --- Naval operations --- Suhren, Teddy. --- Suhren, Reinhard --- Germany. --- Officers

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In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captain

Seafaring life --- Irish Americans --- African Americans --- Ship captains --- Sailors' life --- Sea life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Voyages and travels --- Ethnology --- Irish --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Blacks --- Captains of ships --- Masters of ships --- Sea captains --- Shipmasters --- Ships --- Ships' captains --- Merchant marine --- History --- Officers --- Maffitt, John Newland, --- Grandy, Moses, --- North Carolina --- Black people

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"Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll's story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade"--

Slave traders --- Whaling masters --- Slave trade --- Whaling --- Seafaring life --- Sailors' life --- Sea life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Voyages and travels --- Commercial whaling --- Hunting, Whale --- Whale fisheries --- Whale hunting --- Fisheries --- Masters, Whaling --- Whaling captains --- Whalingmasters --- Ship captains --- Whalers (Persons) --- Slave dealers --- Slavers --- Traders, Slave --- Persons --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History --- Davoll, Edward S. --- Ethics. --- New Bedford (Mass.) --- Enslavers