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Life Among Ocean Tramps Afloat From Ice to Tropical Seas
A long, danger filled portrait of tramp steamers carrying volatile cargoes such as dynamite and nitroglycerin across perilous routes. Captains recount icy Arctic passages at Labrador Cape Horn, typhoons in Hong Kong, and hostile coasts while detailing life aboard with natives, mines, and constant peril at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Pacific
Cape Horn
Vledivostok
Tropics
Hong Kong
Indian Ocean
Santa Maria
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Lane
Caleb Couch
New York
Fullerton
Port
Churchill
Labrador
Couch
Hebron
Cape Sugford
Cashidley
Port Churchill
Lonely Port
Pasing Vladivostok
Warjagin
Lloyd's Agency
China
Japan
Pearl River
P. Hitchcock
Bombay
Algiers
Tropic
Africa
F. H Shaw
Chigwell
Newcastle
England
Batouma
Russia
Fiume
Austria
Dardanelles
Batoum
Ehipmates
Masters
Flurhe