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With over 260 photographs and descriptive text, this book, now re-issued, presents a most important phase of New England shipping. The photographs, of great historic value, depict the fishing schooner from the early pinkeys down through the famous Gloucester sailing fishermen, which have now disappeared from the sea, as well as types now in operation – the modern Diesel craft, draggers, and deep-sea scallopers. There are pictures of the building of Gloucestermen from the laying of the keels to launching and fitting out. Vivid action photographs graphically illustrate mackerel fishery, catching and salt-curing cod, and halibut, haddock, and sword fishing; and masterpieces of photographic art show, from many angles, the renowned racing fisher- men under sail.
Mr. Church has devoted his life to collecting and making the photographs from which he has selected the prints for this book. James B. Connolly, famous writer of sea stories, and historian of Gloucester, contributes the vigorous and salty text. American Fishermen will stand as a lasting tribute to the splendid vessels that made Gloucester and its mighty fishermen famous the world over.
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