Bibliograph

Forty years master, a life in sail and steam, Daniel O. Killman ; edited and annotated by John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr. ; compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison ; with an introduction by Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull

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Label

Forty years master, a life in sail and steam, Daniel O. Killman ; edited and annotated by John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr. ; compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison ; with an introduction by Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Forty years master

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

931226756

Responsibility statement

Daniel O. Killman ; edited and annotated by John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr. ; compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison ; with an introduction by Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull

Series statement

Marine, maritime, and coastal books

Sub title

a life in sail and steam

Summary

During Daniel O. Killman<U+2019>s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, all the while remaining in impeccable standing with the owners of his vessels. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels in the Pacific is chronicled in Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Brian J. Rouleau -- Early life -- From third mate to first mate -- Twice around Cape Horn -- Master in steam and sail -- Commanding the Kitsap -- The wreck of the Julia H. Ray -- Whalers in the Arctic -- Alaska and the salmon trade -- A married man -- Trouble on the Yangtze -- A court case -- To the Klondike for gold -- San Francisco earthquake, Yokohama typhoon -- The Peruvian oilfields -- Hurricane in the tropics -- War in Europe -- Arrested for murder -- A new owner for the H. K. Hall -- A run to Japan in a shipping board steamer -- A lost rudder -- Carrying coal to Peru -- An auto accident -- A Finnish sailor bests five Peruvian police -- Saving the charter of the Ella A. -- The last voyage of the schooner Ella A. -- Bound for home -- Afterword / David Hull -- Notes -- Glossary of nautical terms

Target audience

adult

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