Fore and Aft
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0979594960
ISBN 13
9780979594960
Category
History of Boating/Sailing; Dictionaries and other Information
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Pages
208
Description
Robert B. Dixon was eighteen and right out of private school when he set out on the brig Elizabeth from the port of New York on what would be a fourteen month voyage. Between Ocotber 1875 and December 1876, the Elizabeth, with a crew of eight, carried railroad supplies to Vera Cruz, Mexico; and then shipped a load of assorted lumber products to Boston. During the course of the voyage, which he likens to that taken by Richard Henry Dana, forty years prior, Dixon rose to first mate. Like Dana, Dixon later attended Harvard College. He went on to become a physician in Boston. - from Amzon
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1
