The Triumph of the Tramp Ship (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Triumph of the Tramp Ship<br><br>In "The Sea Traders," to which this volume is a companion, an attempt was made to show by the life stories of typical merchant adventurers how our mercantile marine has been built up by the initiative, courage and foresight of individual pioneers who have never wanted support from the finest seamen who have ever sailed the seas. In the present volume the purpose has been to give the history, from the earliest dawn of civilization, of the tramp, or cargo-carrying, ship, which has been the conspicuous agent in making the resources of the world generally available to mankind.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.