ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The Panay, one of the last of the Salem fleet bound out from Boston to Manila twenty-five years ago Frontispiece
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Custom House document with signature of Nathaniel Hawthorne as surveyor 6
Page from the illustrated log of the Eolus 6
A corner in the Marine Room of the Peabody Museum 14
The Marine Room, Peabody Museum 14
Certificate of Membership in the Salem Marine Society 18
Title page of the log of Capt Nathaniel Hawthorne 18
The Roger Williams house 24
The Philip English “Great House” 30
A bill of lading of the time of Philip English, dated 1716 36
The log of a Salem whaler 36
A page from Falconer’s Marine Dictionary (18th Century) 44
Agreement by which a Revolutionary privateer seaman sold his share of the booty in advance of his cruise 66
Proclamation posted in Salem during the Revolution calling for volunteers aboard Paul Jones’ Ranger 70
Schooner Baltic 76
Derby Wharf, Salem, Mass., as it appears to-day 86
Captain Luther Little 108
The East India Marine Society’s hall, now the home of the Peabody Museum 120
Page from the records of the East India Marine Society 120
The Salem Custom House, built in 1818 140
Richard Derby 152
“Leslie’s Retreat” 158
The Grand Turk, first American ship to pass the Cape of Good Hope 176
Nathaniel West 180
William Gray 188
Elias Hasket Derby 188
The Ship Mount Vernon 192
Elias Hasket Derby mansion (1790-1816) 194
Prince House. Home of Richard Derby. Built about 1750 194
Joseph Peabody 200
Hon. Jacob Crowninshield 204
Benjamin Crowninshield 208
Ship Ulysses 212
Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge 212
Log of the good ship Rubicon 214
The frigate Essex 230
Broadside ballad published in Salem after the news was received of the loss of the Essex 248
Page from the log of the Margaret 252
The good ship Franklin 252
View of Nagasaki before Japan was opened to commerce 260
Salem Harbor as it is to-day 274
The old-time sailors used to have their vessels painted on pitchers and punch bowls 284
Title page from the journal of the Lydia 284
Nathaniel Bowditch, author of “The Practical Navigator” 294
Nathaniel Bowditch’s chart of Salem harbor 304
Captain Benjamin Carpenter of the Hercules, 1792 306
From the log of the Hercules 308
Pages from the log of the ship Hercules, 1792 312
Captain Nathaniel Silsbee 318
Captain Richard Cleveland 334
Captain James W. Chever 358
The privateer America under full sail 358
Captain Holten J. Breed 370
The privateer Grand Turk 370
An old broadside, relating the incidents of the battle of Qualah Battoo 380
The Glide 390
The Friendship 390
Captain Driver 408
Letter to Captain Driver from the “Bounty” Colonists 408
Captain Thomas Fuller 432
The brig Mexican attacked by pirates, 1832 432
Frederick T. Ward 454
Captain John Bertram 486
Ship Sooloo 494
THE SHIPS AND SAILORS OF OLD SALEM
The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem