The Story of the American Merchant Marine, by John Randolph Spears 53122 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/1/2/53122 ] [Files: 53122-h.htm; 53122-0.txt; ] [Clearance: 20131215105147spears] E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Thanks, Joe