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Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner

By Geoffrey M Footner
Hardcover
$39.95
By Geoffrey M Footner
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The fast, agile pilot schooners of Chesapeake Bay—employed not only for piloting but for cargo-carrying—began to build their legend in the eighteenth century, becoming blockade runners during the American Revolution, privateering vessels during the War of 1812, armed dispatch and policing vessels for European navies, and a favored type for the activities of pirates, smugglers and slavers. Variations on the final "clipper" model of the Baltimore schooner continued the vessel's reputation thr...

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