Best of
Maritime

1967

Gipsy Moth Circles the World


Francis Chichester - 1967
    He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea. It was an amazing performance; that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. This book presents an account of his nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV.

The Search For Speed Under Sail, 1700 1855


Howard Irving Chapelle - 1967
    Sailing ships in the 18th and 19th centuries.

"Old Bruin" Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry


Samuel Eliot Morison - 1967