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America's most famous living merchant skipper Murphy
Henry W. Owen Jr profiles Captain James F. Murphy of Bath Maine a veteran shipmaster who has sailed for 47 years and commanded vessels for 37 years He has doubled Cape Horn 59 times never lost a life or spar and built a storied career from the David Brown to the Shenandoah and Yorktown while facing peril and international incidents with calm authority It ends noting a Horn voyage near the end of the excerpt with continued tale on page two.
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James F. Murphy
Bath
Sewall
Shenandoah
James F. N Murphy
High St
Murphy
Cape Horn
Capt. Murphy
Bath Mareh St
1854
Jim’ Murphy
James K. Murphy
Jim
Mary Jane Sewall
Charles Murphy
Pine St
Washington St
Pine
Lizzie Loud
King’s Dock
Bruce
Clinton and Balth
Houghton
Richard Morse
Richard Morse & Sons
Mary
J. Parker Morse
Alfred Lemont
Australia
Idaho
Lemont & Robinson
Port Adelaide
Aust
Father
St. Helena
Orville
Frank O. Moses
J. K. Murphy
Secatarie Island
Cape Breton
Frank Delano
Crescent City
Chincha Islands
John H. Kirgball
Annie Kimball
Willam Lincoln
Sagadahoc
Cleveland Curtis
CC. O. Whitmore
Denny M. Humphreys
Kimball
Humphreys
Merrymeeting Park
Androscoggin
Whitmore
Liverpool
Lincoln
David Brown
Plymouth
Melbourne
Newcastle
San Francisco
Queenstown
Brown
Maria
Elisha Higgins
Alexander
Peru
Mollendo
Peruvian
Northampton
Havre