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Time Warrior: Using the Total Cycle Time System to Boost Personal Competitiveness

Business & Money

Martin, Kenneth R.

Thomas, Philip R.

Business Culture

McGraw=Hill

Whalemen's Paintings and Drawings: Selections from the Kendall Whaling Museum Collection

Arts & Photography

UNKNO

The Adventures of Jack: Or Life on a Wave

Biographies & Memoirs

Newhall, Charles L.

Reference & Collections

Ye Galleon Pr

*2009 United State Maritime Literature Award*
In the years following the American Civil War, Yankee sailing ships and shipyards were threatened by foreign competition and modernizing technology. Despite decades of stiff competition, a few builders in Bath, Maine, the City of Ships, persisted in building wooden schooners, modifying and enlarging them to meet the changing times. Gardiner G. Deering (1833-1921) was one of these diehards. Genial and unaffected but driven to succeed, he started at the bottom of the trade and worked himself to the top, building ninety-nine vessels over his long life, dozens of which he personally managed. As this spirited, absorbing study reveals, Deering prospered in the face of ferocious competition and economic gyrations. Through thick and thin, he seemed to enjoy himself immensely. When Gardiner Deering died in 1921, he was widely acknowledged as the last of his breed, the Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding. Color throughout

Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering

Historical

Tilbury House Distr

When the Portsmouth Athenaeum acquired a rare log kept on Portsmouth whaling vessel Ann Parry, the Marine Society found Ken Martin, the former director of the Kendall Whaling Museum and author of several other whaling related books, to author the 24th publication in the series devoted to the maritime history of the Piscataqua river basin. In addition to the log in the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Martin was able to use logs and other material from other Portsmouth voyages now in the archives of museums in New Bedford and Nantucket, as well as from Kendall Whaling Museum. More than 50 rare illustrations bring to life the adventures, the hardships, and the rare successes of Portsmouth whalers. The resulting book is devoted to the several voyages of Portsmouth ships, including the Ann Parry, Pocahontas, Sarah Sheafe, Sarah Parker, Triton, Portsmouth, and Neptune. Here are stories of shipwrecks and captures by South Pacific natives, chance meetings at sea with other Portsmouth vessels, visits to exotic ports, and the financial ruin of the Portsmouth Whaling Company, not to mention the woes of crewmen, some of whom completed a 43-month voyage owing the company for small advances against hoped for profits.

Heavy Weather and Hard Luck: Portsmouth Goes Whaling (Portsmouth, Massachusetts Marine Society, No. 24)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Portsmouth Marine Society

Lobstering and the Maine Coast

Liptert, Nathan R.

Maine Maritime Museum

The Pattens of Bath: A Seagoing Dynasty

Snow, Ralph Linwood

Maine odyssey good bad time Bath 1936-1986

Maine odyssey: Good times and hard times in Bath, 1936-1986

History

Americas

Patten Free Library

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