THE SHIPS AND SAILORS
OF OLD SALEM

The Panay, one of the last of the Salem fleet bound out from Boston to Manila twenty-five years ago

THE SHIPS AND SAILORS
OF
OLD SALEM
THE RECORD OF A BRILLIANT ERA OF
AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
BY
RALPH D. PAINE
Author of “The Greater America,”
“The Romance of an Old-Time Shipmaster,” etc.
NEW EDITION
ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1912

All Rights Reserved
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO

“THE MERCHANTMEN”

“Beyond all outer charting

We sailed where none have sailed,

And saw the land-lights burning

On islands none have hailed;

Our hair stood up for wonder,

But when the night was done,

There danced the deep to windward

Blue-empty ’neath the sun.”

Rudyard Kipling.

“We’re outward bound this very day,

Good-bye, fare you well,

Good-bye, fare you well.

We’re outward bound this very day,

Hurrah, my boys, we’re outward bound.”

(From a chantey sung while sheeting home topsails.)

THE SHIPS AND SAILORSOF OLD SALEM

THE SHIPS AND SAILORS
OF OLD SALEM