GREASY LUCK
Reading edition
A WHALING SKETCH BOOK
by
GORDON GRANT
WILLIAM FARQUHAR PAYSON
NEW YORK
CARAVAN MARITIME BOOKS
JAMAICA, NEW YORK
1970
COPYRIGHT, 1932
William Farquhar Payson
NEW YORK
CARAVAN MARITIME BOOKS
JAMAICA, NEW YORK
Printed in the United States of America
by Sentry Press, New York, N. Y. 10019
TO
MY WIFE
a lover of ships
The author gratefully acknowledges his debt to Frank Wood and William H. Tripp of the Whaling Museum of New Bedford, for their splendid cooperation—and to Clifford W. Ashley and his most admirable book “The Yankee Whaler”