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Please note: Merchant ship arrivals are included to give an idea of the volume and type of goods into early San Francisco. If you had the money, you could have anything your heart desired. Listings are by no means complete; names of passengers on these vessels are often unavailable.
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San Francisco
1865
APRIL
April 18, 1865, Daily Alta California, San Francisco: Three Weeks Later from the Sandwich Islands. The Eldridge arrived on the 24th March, 13 days from San Francisco.
AUGUST
- August 27: Arrived 27th, bark A. A. Eldridge, 20 days from Honolulu.
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Sailing Directions for the West Coast of North America: The Coasts of Central America, California, Oregon, Fuca, Strait, Puget Sound, Vancouver
Classic Reprint published by Forgotten Books. Author Unknown.
The rapid development of the resources of California and Oregon, and the increase of commerce with countries on the sea-board of Central America, had the effect of raising into importance many ports which initially afforded only an occasional shelter to whalers. As the countries of Western America became more commercially valuable, and the ports visited less as harbours of occasional shelter than as places of trade, a work affording some information to the seaman, however scanty, of the ports was deemed necessary.
Out on the Deep Blue: True Stories of Daring, Persistence, and Survival from the Nation's Most Dangerous Profession
Leslie Leyland Fields, Editor.
the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation. Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning on the Georges Banks, winter crabbing in the Bering Sea, sea-urchin diving off Maine, herring fishing in Alaska, shark-harpooning off Scotland and points between.
The Ancient Mariners
Lionel Casson.
Dutton's Nautical Navigation, 15th Edition
Thomas J. Cutler.
A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories
C. S. Forester
Sail's Last Century:
The Merchant Sailing Ship, 1830-1930
Conway's History of the Ship
Robert Gardiner
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